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IFIP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Truthful Mechanisms for Generalized Utilitarian Problems
In this paper we investigate extensions of the well-known Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanisms to problems whose objective function is not utilitarian and whose agents’ utiliti...
Giovanna Melideo, Paolo Penna, Guido Proietti, Rog...
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
105views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Towards truthful mechanisms for binary demand games: a general framework
The family of Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanisms is arguably the most celebrated achievement in truthful mechanism design. However, VCG mechanisms have their limitations. They...
Ming-Yang Kao, Xiang-Yang Li, Weizhao Wang
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Mechanisms for Partial Information Elicitation: The Truth, but Not the Whole Truth
We examine a setting in which a buyer wishes to purchase probabilistic information from some agent. The seller must invest effort in order to gain access to the information, and m...
Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Communist, utilitarian, and capitalist cache policies on CMPs: caches as a shared resource
As chip multiprocessors (CMPs) become increasingly mainstream, architects have likewise become more interested in how best to share a cache hierarchy among multiple simultaneous t...
Lisa R. Hsu, Steven K. Reinhardt, Ravishankar R. I...
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
152views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
On characterizations of truthful mechanisms for combinatorial auctions and scheduling
We characterize truthful mechanisms in two multi-parameter domains. The first characterization shows that every mechanism for combinatorial auctions with two subadditive bidders t...
Shahar Dobzinski, Mukund Sundararajan