Combinatorial auctions, that is, auctions where bidders can bid on combinations of items, tend to lead to more efficient allocations than traditional auction mechanisms in multi-i...
We consider an extension of the popular matching problem in this paper. The input to the popular matching problem is a bipartite graph G = (A ∪ B, E), where A is a set of people,...
The family of Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanisms is arguably the most celebrated achievement in truthful mechanism design. However, VCG mechanisms have their limitations. They...
Usually, for bin packing problems, we try to minimize the number of bins used or in the case of the dual bin packing problem, maximize the number or total size of accepted items. ...
Joan Boyar, Leah Epstein, Lene M. Favrholdt, Jens ...
The increasing proliferation of online shopping and purchasing has naturally led to a growth in the popularity of comparisonshopping search engines, popularly known as "shopb...
Robert S. Garfinkel, Ram D. Gopal, Arvind K. Tripa...