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SAC
2006
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Trading services in ontology-driven markets
In recent years, Web Services have become the key technology for building flexible and interoperable computing infrastructure. However, to realize the vision of a full-fletched ...
Steffen Lamparter, Björn Schnizler
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ICMAS
1998
15 years 3 months ago
A Market Protocol for Decentralized Task Allocation
We present a decentralized, asynchronous market protocol for allocating and scheduling tasks among agents that contend for scarce resources, constrained by a hierarchical task dep...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman
SOFSEM
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
When Analysis Fails: Heuristic Mechanism Design via Self-correcting Procedures
Abstract. Computational mechanism design (CMD) seeks to understand how to design game forms that induce desirable outcomes in multiagent systems despite private information, self-i...
David C. Parkes
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FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
On the Power of Randomization in Algorithmic Mechanism Design
In many settings the power of truthful mechanisms is severely bounded. In this paper we use randomization to overcome this problem. In particular, we construct an FPTAS for multi-...
Shahar Dobzinski, Shaddin Dughmi
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CP
2003
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Automated Mechanism Design: A New Application Area for Search Algorithms
Mechanism design is the art of designing the rules of the game (aka. mechanism) so that a desirable outcome (according to a given objective) is reached despite the fact that each a...
Tuomas Sandholm