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Black-box reductions for cost-sharing mechanism design
We consider the design of strategyproof cost-sharing mechanisms. We give two simple, but extremely versatile, black-box reductions, that in combination reduce the cost-sharing mec...
Konstantinos Georgiou, Chaitanya Swamy
SODA
2012
ACM
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Lower bounds for number-in-hand multiparty communication complexity, made easy
In this paper we prove lower bounds on randomized multiparty communication complexity, both in the blackboard model (where each message is written on a blackboard for all players ...
Jeff M. Phillips, Elad Verbin, Qin Zhang
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2012
ACM
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On the hardness of pricing loss-leaders
Consider the problem of pricing n items under an unlimited supply with m buyers. Each buyer is interested in a bundle of at most k of the items. These buyers are single minded, wh...
Preyas Popat, Yi Wu
SODA
2012
ACM
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Simultaneous approximations for adversarial and stochastic online budgeted allocation
Motivated by online ad allocation, we study the problem of simultaneous approximations for the adversarial and stochastic online budgeted allocation problem. This problem consists...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Shayan Oveis Gharan, Morteza Za...
SODA
2012
ACM
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Stochastic coalescence in logarithmic time
The following distributed coalescence protocol was introduced by Dahlia Malkhi in 2006 motivated by applications in social networking. Initially there are n agents wishing to coal...
Po-Shen Loh, Eyal Lubetzky