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CLIMA
2007
15 years 25 days ago
Plan-Coordination Mechanisms and the Price of Autonomy
Abstract. Task-based planning problems for multi-agent systems require multiple agents to find a joint plan for a constrained set of tasks. Typically, each agent receives a subset...
J. Renze Steenhuisen, Cees Witteveen, Yingqian Zha...
CN
2007
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14 years 11 months ago
An auction mechanism for allocating the bandwidth of networks to their users
We present a mechanism for auctioning bandwidth on a network-wide basis to end users or ISPs that will utilize it for the same time period. This mechanism consists of a set of sim...
Manos Dramitinos, George D. Stamoulis, Costas Cour...
PODC
2004
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
On the expected payment of mechanisms for task allocation
We study a representative task allocation problem called shortest paths: Let G be a graph in which the edges are owned by self interested agents. The cost of each edge is privatel...
Artur Czumaj, Amir Ronen
MKTSCI
2010
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14 years 6 months ago
Optimal Reverse-Pricing Mechanisms
Reverse pricing is a market mechanism under which a consumer's bid for a product leads to a sale if the bid exceeds a hidden acceptance threshold the seller has set in advanc...
Martin Spann, Robert Zeithammer, Gerald Häubl
ICPP
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
A Strategy-proof Pricing Scheme for Multiple Resource Type Allocations
Abstract—Resource sharing on the Internet is becoming increasingly pervasive. Recently, there is growing interest in distributed systems such as peer-to-peer and grid, with effor...
Yong Meng Teo, Marian Mihailescu