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AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities
Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal on...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Tu...
TALG
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Reasoning about online algorithms with weighted automata
We describe an automata-theoretic approach for the competitive analysis of online algorithms. Our approach is based on weighted automata, which assign to each input word a cost in...
Benjamin Aminof, Orna Kupferman, Robby Lampert
ICIS
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Mechanisms for coping with unfair ratings and discriminatory behavior in online reputation reporting systems
Reputation reporting systems have emerged as an important risk management mechanism in online trading communities. However, the predictive value of these systems can be compromise...
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
132views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Limited and online supply and the bayesian foundations of prior-free mechanism design
We study auctions for selling a limited supply of a single commodity in the case where the supply is known in advance and the case it is unknown and must be instead allocated in a...
Nikhil R. Devanur, Jason D. Hartline
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
An Ironing-Based Approach to Adaptive Online Mechanism Design in Single-Valued Domains
Online mechanism design considers the problem of sequential decision making in a multi-agent system with self-interested agents. The agent population is dynamic and each agent has...
David C. Parkes, Quang Duong