AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
Designing revenue-optimal auctions for various settings is perhaps the most important, yet sometimes most elusive, problem in mechanism design. Spiteful bidders have been intensel...
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
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...
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2011
ACM
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...
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
We investigate the class of single-round, sealed-bid auctions for a set of identical items in unlimited supply. We adopt the worst-case competitive framework defined by [8, 4] th...