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SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
On the communication requirements of verifying the VCG outcome
We consider the amount of communication required to verify the outcome of the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism: an efficient allocation together with incentivizing VCG paymen...
Sébastien Lahaie, David C. Parkes
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
MDPOP: faithful distributed implementation of efficient social choice problems
We model social choice problems in which self interested agents with private utility functions have to agree on values for a set of variables subject to side constraints. The goal...
Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings, David C. Parkes
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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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...
MOBICOM
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
OURS: optimal unicast routing systems in non-cooperative wireless networks
We propose novel solutions for unicast routing in wireless networks consisted of selfish terminals: in order to alleviate the inevitable over-payment problem (and thus economic i...
Weizhao Wang, Xiang-Yang Li, Stephan Eidenbenz, Yu...
CCS
2006
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Securing the drop-box architecture for assisted living
Home medical devices enable individuals to monitor some of their own health information without the need for visits by nurses or trips to medical facilities. This enables more con...
Michael J. May, Wook Shin, Carl A. Gunter, Insup L...