Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
Paul Harrenstein, Mathijs de Weerdt, Vincent Conit...
Designing revenue-optimal auctions for various settings is perhaps the most important, yet sometimes most elusive, problem in mechanism design. Spiteful bidders have been intensel...
Abstract— E-mail is one of the most popular Internet applications. Unfortunately, the server-centric architecture of today’s commercial solutions inherently limits availability...
An electronic registry is the main mechanism for the official distribution of public records, which are created within the framework of administrative procedures and business trans...
The e-learning project GOLEM introduces a group and role-oriented concept to the course "Man-Machine Interfaces" at the University of Technology in Hamburg, Germany. Stu...