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CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
On Optimal Single-Item Auctions
We revisit the problem of designing the profit-maximizing single-item auction, solved by Myerson in his seminal paper for the case in which bidder valuations are independently dis...
Christos H. Papadimitriou, George Pierrakos
WINE
2005
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
A Simple Characterization for Truth-Revealing Single-Item Auctions
Abstract. We give a simple characterization of all single-item truthrevealing auctions under some mild (and natural) assumptions about the auctions. Our work opens up the possibili...
Kamal Jain, Aranyak Mehta, Kunal Talwar, Vijay V. ...
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
The Power of Sequential Single-Item Auctions for Agent Coordination
Teams of robots are more fault tolerant than single robots, and auctions appear to be promising means for coordinating them. In a recent paper at "Robotics: Science and Syste...
Sven Koenig, Craig A. Tovey, Michail G. Lagoudakis...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Optimal Auctions with Correlated Bidders are Easy
We consider the problem of designing a revenue-maximizing auction for a single item, when the values of the bidders are drawn from a correlated distribution. We observe that there...
Shahar Dobzinski, Hu Fu, Robert Kleinberg
IROS
2006
IEEE
115views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Sequential Single-Item Auctions
— We study how to improve sequential single-item auctions that assign targets to robots for exploration tasks such as environmental clean-up, space-exploration, and search and re...
Xiaoming Zheng, Sven Koenig, Craig A. Tovey