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CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
Single-Call Mechanisms
Following Babaioff, Kleinberg, and Slivkins [4], we study single-call mechanisms — truthful mechanisms that evaluate an allocation function only once per instantiation. First, w...
Balasubramanian Sivan, Christopher A. Wilkens
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Approximate mechanism design without money
The literature on algorithmic mechanism design is mostly concerned with game-theoretic versions of optimization problems to which standard economic money-based mechanisms cannot b...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Moshe Tennenholtz
MFCS
2009
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Private Capacities in Mechanism Design
Algorithmic mechanism design considers distributed settings where the participants, termed agents, cannot be assumed to follow the protocol but rather their own interests. The pro...
Vincenzo Auletta, Paolo Penna, Giuseppe Persiano
ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Incentive-Compatible Mechanism for Scheduling Non-Malleable Parallel Jobs with Individual Deadlines
We design an incentive-compatible mechanism for scheduling n non-malleable parallel jobs on a parallel system comprising m identical processors. Each job is owned by a selfish us...
Thomas E. Carroll, Daniel Grosu
CLUSTER
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Load Balancing in Distributed Systems
Computational Grids are large scale computing system composed of geographically distributed resources (computers, storage etc.) owned by self interested agents or organizations. T...
Daniel Grosu, Anthony T. Chronopoulos