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AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Incentive-Compatible Escrow Mechanisms
The most prominent way to establish trust between buyers and sellers on online auction sites are reputation mechanisms. Two drawbacks of this approach are the reliance on the sell...
Jens Witkowski, Sven Seuken, David C. Parkes
AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
A Robust Bayesian Truth Serum for Small Populations
Peer prediction mechanisms allow the truthful elicitation of private signals (e.g., experiences, or opinions) in regard to a true world state when this ground truth is unobservabl...
Jens Witkowski, David C. Parkes

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15 years 4 months ago
A Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism for Decentralized Supply Chain Formation
In this paper, we consider a decentralized supply chain formation problem for linear, multi-echelon supply chains when the managers of the individual echelons are autonomous, ratio...
Y. Narahari and Nikesh Kumar Srivastava
WINE
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Design of Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Stackelberg Problems
This paper takes the first steps towards designing incentive compatible mechanisms for hierarchical decision making problems involving selfish agents. We call these Stackelberg p...
Dinesh Garg, Yadati Narahari

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15 years 3 months ago
Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Decentralized Supply Chain Formation
In this thesis, we describe a decentralized supply chain formation problem where the supply chain planner or a central design authority (CDA) is faced with the decision of choosi...
Nikesh Kumar Srivastava