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ALDT
2009
Springer
126views Algorithms» more  ALDT 2009»
13 years 8 months ago
On Low-Envy Truthful Allocations
We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible items to players having additive utility functions over the items. We consider allocations in which no player envies the bun...
Ioannis Caragiannis, Christos Kaklamanis, Panagiot...
CORR
2010
Springer
95views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Single-Call Mechanisms
Following Babaioff, Kleinberg, and Slivkins [4], we study single-call mechanisms — truthful mechanisms that evaluate an allocation function only once per instantiation. First, w...
Balasubramanian Sivan, Christopher A. Wilkens
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
164views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Truthful mechanisms with implicit payment computation
It is widely believed that computing payments needed to induce truthful bidding is somehow harder than simply computing the allocation. We show that the opposite is true for singl...
Moshe Babaioff, Robert D. Kleinberg, Aleksandrs Sl...
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
122views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-unit auctions with budget-constrained bidders
We study a multi-unit auction with multiple bidders, each of whom has a private valuation and a budget. The truthful mechanisms of such an auction are characterized, in the sense ...
Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, Nicole Immorl...
ICALP
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Mechanism Design for Fractional Scheduling on Unrelated Machines
In this paper, we consider the mechanism design version of the fractional variant of the scheduling problem on unrelated machines. We give a lower bound of 2 − 1/n for any fracti...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Annam&aac...