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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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Computing optimal strategies to commit to in extensive-form games
Computing optimal strategies to commit to in general normal-form or Bayesian games is a topic that has recently been gaining attention, in part due to the application of such algo...
Joshua Letchford, Vincent Conitzer
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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Socially desirable approximations for Dodgson's voting rule
In 1876 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson suggested the intriguing voting rule that today bears his name. Although Dodgson’s rule is one of the most well-studied voting rules, it suffers...
Ioannis Caragiannis, Christos Kaklamanis, Nikos Ka...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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Revenue maximization with a single sample
We design and analyze approximately revenue-maximizing auctions in general single-parameter settings. Bidders have publicly observable attributes, and we assume that the valuation...
Peerapong Dhangwatnotai, Tim Roughgarden, Qiqi Yan
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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Optimal online assignment with forecasts
Motivated by the allocation problem facing publishers in display advertising we formulate the online assignment with forecast problem, a version of the online allocation problem w...
Erik Vee, Sergei Vassilvitskii, Jayavel Shanmugasu...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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Assessing regret-based preference elicitation with the UTPREF recommendation system
Product recommendation and decision support systems must generally develop a model of user preferences by querying or otherwise interacting with a user. Recent approaches to elici...
Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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A new understanding of prediction markets via no-regret learning
We explore the striking mathematical connections that exist between market scoring rules, cost function based prediction markets, and no-regret learning. We first show that any c...
Yiling Chen, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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Collective wisdom: information growth in wikis and blogs
Sanmay Das, Malik Magdon-Ismail
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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Mix and match
Itai Ashlagi, Felix A. Fischer, Ian A. Kash, Ariel...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
125views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Information asymmetries in pay-per-bid auctions
Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...