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SIGECOM
2003
ACM
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Pricing WiFi at Starbucks: issues in online mechanism design
We consider the problem of designing mechanisms for online problems in which agents arrive over time and the mechanism is unaware of the agent until the agent announces her arriva...
Eric J. Friedman, David C. Parkes
WINE
2005
Springer
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Design of Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Stackelberg Problems
This paper takes the first steps towards designing incentive compatible mechanisms for hierarchical decision making problems involving selfish agents. We call these Stackelberg p...
Dinesh Garg, Yadati Narahari
SAGT
2009
Springer
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A Modular Approach to Roberts' Theorem
Roberts’ theorem from 1979 states that the only incentive compatible mechanisms over a full domain and range of at least 3 are weighted variants of the VCG mechanism termed affin...
Shahar Dobzinski, Noam Nisan
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Dynamic cost-per-action mechanisms and applications to online advertising
We study the Cost-Per-Action or Cost-Per-Acquisition (CPA) charging scheme in online advertising. In this scheme, instead of paying per click, the advertisers pay only when a user...
Hamid Nazerzadeh, Amin Saberi, Rakesh Vohra