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FOCS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On the Power of Randomization in Algorithmic Mechanism Design
In many settings the power of truthful mechanisms is severely bounded. In this paper we use randomization to overcome this problem. In particular, we construct an FPTAS for multi-...
Shahar Dobzinski, Shaddin Dughmi

Publication
341views
15 years 3 months ago
Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Decentralized Supply Chain Formation
In this thesis, we describe a decentralized supply chain formation problem where the supply chain planner or a central design authority (CDA) is faced with the decision of choosi...
Nikesh Kumar Srivastava
STACS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Deterministic Truthful Approximation Mechanisms for Scheduling Related Machines
Abstract. We consider the problem of scheduling jobs on related machines owned by selfish agents and provide the first deterministic mechanisms with constant approximation that a...
Vincenzo Auletta, Roberto De Prisco, Paolo Penna, ...
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
131views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Truthful germs are contagious: a local to global characterization of truthfulness
We study the question of how to easily recognize whether a social unction f from an abstract type space to a set of outcomes is truthful, i.e. implementable by a truthful mechanis...
Aaron Archer, Robert Kleinberg
ESA
2008
Springer
195views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
A Characterization of 2-Player Mechanisms for Scheduling
We study the mechanism design problem of scheduling unrelated machines and we completely characterize the decisive truthful mechanisms for two players when the domain contains bot...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Angelina ...