Sciweavers

5 search results - page 1 / 1
» The Submodular Welfare Problem with Demand Queries
Sort
View
TOC
2010
127views Management» more  TOC 2010»
12 years 11 months ago
The Submodular Welfare Problem with Demand Queries
: We consider the Submodular Welfare Problem where we have m items and n players with given utility functions wi : 2[m] R+. The utility functions are assumed to be monotone and su...
Uriel Feige, Jan Vondrák
CORR
2012
Springer
218views Education» more  CORR 2012»
12 years 17 days ago
On the Hardness of Welfare Maximization in Combinatorial Auctions with Submodular Valuations
We present a new type of monotone submodular functions: multi-peak submodular functions. Roughly speaking, given a family of sets F, we construct a monotone submodular function f ...
Shahar Dobzinski, Jan Vondrák
FOCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
On the Approximability of Budgeted Allocations and Improved Lower Bounds for Submodular Welfare Maximization and GAP
In this paper we consider the following maximum budgeted allocation (MBA) problem: Given a set of m indivisible items and n agents; each agent i willing to pay bij on item j and w...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Gagan Goel
STOC
2012
ACM
221views Algorithms» more  STOC 2012»
11 years 7 months ago
From query complexity to computational complexity
We consider submodular optimization problems, and provide a general way of translating oracle inapproximability results arising from the symmetry gap technique to computational co...
Shahar Dobzinski, Jan Vondrák
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
155views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Tight information-theoretic lower bounds for welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions
We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Michael Schapira, Jan Vondr&aac...