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CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 8 months ago
Eliciting Forecasts from Self-interested Experts: Scoring Rules for Decision Makers
Scoring rules for eliciting expert predictions of random variables are usually developed assuming that experts derive utility only from the quality of their predictions (e.g., sco...
Craig Boutilier
AAAI
2011
14 years 5 months ago
Recommendation Sets and Choice Queries: There Is No Exploration/Exploitation Tradeoff!
Utility elicitation is an important component of many applications, such as decision support systems and recommender systems. Such systems query users about their preferences and ...
Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
WINE
2009
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
Covering Games: Approximation through Non-cooperation
We propose approximation algorithms under game-theoretic considerations. We indroduce and study the general covering problem which is a natural generalization of the well-studied m...
Martin Gairing
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
Computing pure strategy nash equilibria in compact symmetric games
We analyze the complexity of computing pure strategy Nash equilibria (PSNE) in symmetric games with a fixed number of actions. We restrict ourselves to “compact” representati...
Christopher Thomas Ryan, Albert Xin Jiang, Kevin L...
AAAI
2010
15 years 6 months ago
Voting Almost Maximizes Social Welfare Despite Limited Communication
In cooperative multiagent systems an alternative that maximizes the social welfare--the sum of utilities--can only be selected if each agent reports its full utility function. Thi...
Ioannis Caragiannis, Ariel D. Procaccia