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SODA
2012
ACM
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Optimal crowdsourcing contests
We study the design and approximation of optimal crowdsourcing contests. Crowdsourcing contests can be modeled as all-pay auctions because entrants must exert effort up-front to e...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason D. Hartline, Balasubramanian ...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
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Truthful spectrum auction design for secondary networks
Abstract—Opportunistic wireless channel access by nonlicensed users has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the bandwidth scarcity challenge. Auctions represent a natu...
Yuefei Zhu, Baochun Li, Zongpeng Li
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
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12 years 7 months ago
Reserve prices in internet advertising auctions: a field experiment
We present the results of a large field experiment on setting reserve prices in auctions for online advertisements, guided by the theory of optimal auction design suitably adapte...
Michael Ostrovsky, Michael Schwarz