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JAIR
2006
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14 years 10 months ago
Resource Allocation Among Agents with MDP-Induced Preferences
Allocating scarce resources among agents to maximize global utility is, in general, computationally challenging. We focus on problems where resources enable agents to execute acti...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee
STOC
2012
ACM
221views Algorithms» more  STOC 2012»
13 years 16 days ago
From query complexity to computational complexity
We consider submodular optimization problems, and provide a general way of translating oracle inapproximability results arising from the symmetry gap technique to computational co...
Shahar Dobzinski, Jan Vondrák
SAGT
2009
Springer
118views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
A Modular Approach to Roberts' Theorem
Roberts’ theorem from 1979 states that the only incentive compatible mechanisms over a full domain and range of at least 3 are weighted variants of the VCG mechanism termed affin...
Shahar Dobzinski, Noam Nisan
AMAI
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Heuristics for a Brokering Set Packing Problem
In this paper we formulate the combinatorial auction brokering problem as a Set Packing Problem (SPP) and apply a simulated annealing heuristic to solve SPP. Experimental results ...
Yunsong Guo, Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigues, Yi Zhu
IOR
2011
96views more  IOR 2011»
14 years 1 months ago
An Ascending Vickrey Auction for Selling Bases of a Matroid
Consider selling bundles of indivisible goods to buyers with concave utilities that are additively separable in money and goods. We propose an ascending auction for the case when ...
Sushil Bikhchandani, Sven de Vries, James Schummer...