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ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
DISOPT
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
A pricing problem under Monge property
We study a pricing problem where buyers with non-uniform demand purchase one of many items. Each buyer has a known benefit for each item and purchases the item that gives the larg...
Oktay Günlük
AAAI
2000
14 years 11 months ago
Improved Algorithms for Optimal Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auctions and Generalizations
Combinatorial auctions can be used to reach efficient resource and task allocations in multiagent systems where the items are complementary. Determining the winners is NP-complete...
Tuomas Sandholm, Subhash Suri
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
152views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
On characterizations of truthful mechanisms for combinatorial auctions and scheduling
We characterize truthful mechanisms in two multi-parameter domains. The first characterization shows that every mechanism for combinatorial auctions with two subadditive bidders t...
Shahar Dobzinski, Mukund Sundararajan
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AAAI
2012
13 years 4 hour ago
Optimal Auctions for Spiteful Bidders
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...
Pingzhong Tang, Tuomas Sandholm