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INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
On Leveraging Partial Paths in Partially-Connected Networks
Abstract—Mobile wireless network research focuses on scenarios at the extremes of the network connectivity continuum where the probability of all nodes being connected is either ...
Simon Heimlicher, Merkourios Karaliopoulos, Hanoch...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Automated mechanism design for a self-interested designer
Often, an outcome must be chosen on the basis of the preferences reported by a group of agents. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely to m...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
TASE
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Mechanism Design for Single Leader Stackelberg Problems and Application to Procurement Auction Design
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...
Dinesh Garg, Y. Narahari
JCSS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Reducing mechanism design to algorithm design via machine learning
We use techniques from sample-complexity in machine learning to reduce problems of incentive-compatible mechanism design to standard algorithmic questions, for a broad class of re...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason D. Hartlin...
GI
2001
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Designing QoS and Charging Mechanisms: He who pays the service shapes the design
To accommodate applications with highly variable degrees and categories of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, a major effort has been invested to overcome the traditional best-...
Anna Bouch, Martina Angela Sasse