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CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Mechanism Design via Correlation Gap
For revenue and welfare maximization in singledimensional Bayesian settings, Chawla et al. (STOC10) recently showed that sequential posted-price mechanisms (SPMs), though simple i...
Qiqi Yan
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
An Optimal Dynamic Mechanism for Multi-Armed Bandit Processes
We consider the problem of revenue-optimal dynamic mechanism design in settings where agents' types evolve over time as a function of their (both public and private) experien...
Sham M. Kakade, Ilan Lobel, Hamid Nazerzadeh
SODA
2004
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
Frugality in path auctions
We consider the problem of picking (buying) an inexpensive s-t path in a graph where edges are owned by independent (selfish) agents, and the cost of an edge is known to its owner...
Edith Elkind, Amit Sahai, Kenneth Steiglitz

Publication
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15 years 2 months ago
An Optimal Multi-Unit Combinatorial Procurement Auction with Single Minded Bidders
Abstract: The current art in optimal combinatorial auctions is limited to handling the case of single units of multiple items, with each bidder bidding on exactly one bundle (singl...
Sujit Guajr, Y Narahari