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SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Network bargaining: algorithms and structural results
We consider models for bargaining in social networks, in which players are represented by vertices and edges represent bilateral opportunities for deals between pairs of players. ...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Michael Kearns, Sanjeev Khanna
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Destroy to save
We study the problem of how to allocate m identical items among n > m agents, assuming each agent desires exactly one item and has a private value for consuming the item. We as...
Geoffroy de Clippel, Victor Naroditskiy, Amy R. Gr...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Eliciting truthful answers to multiple-choice questions
Motivated by the prevalence of online questionnaires in electronic commerce, and of multiple-choice questions in such questionnaires, we consider the problem of eliciting truthful...
Nicolas S. Lambert, Yoav Shoham
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Designing incentives for online question and answer forums
Shaili Jain, Yiling Chen, David C. Parkes
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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The adwords problem: online keyword matching with budgeted bidders under random permutations
We consider the problem of a search engine trying to assign a sequence of search keywords to a set of competing bidders, each with a daily spending limit. The goal is to maximize ...
Nikhil R. Devenur, Thomas P. Hayes
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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The price of uncertainty
We study the degree to which small fluctuations in costs in wellstudied potential games can impact the result of natural best-response and improved-response dynamics. We call thi...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Yishay Mansour
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Self-correcting sampling-based dynamic multi-unit auctions
Florin Constantin, David C. Parkes
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Simple versus optimal mechanisms
The monopolist’s theory of optimal single-item auctions for agents with independent private values can be summarized by two statements. The first is from Myerson [8]: the optim...
Jason D. Hartline, Tim Roughgarden
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Policy teaching through reward function learning
Policy teaching considers a Markov Decision Process setting in which an interested party aims to influence an agent’s decisions by providing limited incentives. In this paper, ...
Haoqi Zhang, David C. Parkes, Yiling Chen
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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A new perspective on implementation by voting trees
Voting trees describe an iterative procedure for selecting a single vertex from a tournament. vide a very general abstract model of decision-making among a group of individuals, a...
Felix A. Fischer, Ariel D. Procaccia, Alex Samorod...