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2010
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On the Competitive Ratio of Online Sampling Auctions
We study online profit-maximizing auctions for digital goods with adversarial bid selection and uniformly random arrivals. Our goal is to design auctions that are constant competit...
Elias Koutsoupias, George Pierrakos
WINE
2010
Springer
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You Share, I Share: Network Effects and Economic Incentives in P2P File-Sharing Systems
Abstract. We study the interaction between network effects and external incentives on file sharing behavior in Peerto-Peer (P2P) networks. Many current or envisioned P2P networks r...
Mahyar Salek, Shahin Shayandeh, David Kempe
WINE
2010
Springer
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Impersonation Strategies in Auctions
A common approach to analyzing repeated auctions, such as sponsored search auctions, is to treat them as complete information games, because it is assumed that, over time, players...
Ian A. Kash, David C. Parkes
WINE
2010
Springer
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Truthful Mechanisms for Exhibitions
We consider the following combinatorial auction: Given a range space (U, R), and m bidders interested in buying only ranges in R, each bidder j declares her bid bj : R R+. We give...
George Christodoulou, Khaled M. Elbassioni, Mahmou...
WINE
2010
Springer
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Course Allocation by Proxy Auction
We propose a new proxy bidding mechanism to allocate courses to students given students' reported preferences. Our mechanism is motivated by a specific strategic downgrading m...
Scott Duke Kominers, Mike Ruberry, Jonathan Ullman