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SODA
2003
ACM
121views Algorithms» more  SODA 2003»
15 years 15 days ago
Competitiveness via consensus
We introduce the following consensus estimate problem. Several processors hold private and possibly different lower bounds on a value. The processors do not communicate with each ...
Andrew V. Goldberg, Jason D. Hartline
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
155views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Tight information-theoretic lower bounds for welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions
We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Michael Schapira, Jan Vondr&aac...
AAAI
2011
13 years 11 months ago
On Expressing Value Externalities in Position Auctions
Externalities are recognized to exist in the sponsored search market, where two co-located ads compete for user attention. Existing work focuses on the effect of another ad on th...
Florin Constantin, Malvika Rao, Chien-Chung Huang,...
SODA
2010
ACM
148views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
15 years 8 months ago
Limits on the Social Welfare of Maximal-In-Range Auction Mechanisms
Many commonly-used auction mechanisms are "maximal-in-range". We show that any maximalin-range mechanism for n bidders and m items cannot both approximate the social wel...
Dave Buchfuhrer, Chris Umans
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WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Dynamics of bid optimization in online advertisement auctions
We consider the problem of online keyword advertising auctions among multiple bidders with limited budgets, and study a natural bidding heuristic in which advertisers attempt to o...
Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, Nicole Immorl...