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SIGECOM
2003
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Exploring bidding strategies for market-based scheduling
A market-based scheduling mechanism allocates resources indexed by time to alternative uses based on the bids of participating agents. Agents are typically interested in multiple ...
Michael P. Wellman, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Danie...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
112views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Self-interested automated mechanism design and implications for optimal combinatorial auctions
Often, an outcome must be chosen on the basis of the preferences reported by a group of agents. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely to m...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
129views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating example-based search tools
A crucial element in consumer electronic commerce is a catalog tool that not only finds the product for the user, but also convinces him that he has made the best choice. To do th...
Pearl Huan Z. Pu, Pratyush Kumar
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
120views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
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Computational criticisms of the revelation principle
The revelation principle is a cornerstone tool in mechanism design. It states that one can restrict attention, without loss in the designer’s objective, to mechanisms in which A...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
96views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Expressive negotiation over donations to charities
When donating money to a (say, charitable) cause, it is possible to use the contemplated donation as negotiating material to induce other parties interested in the charity to dona...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm