Sciweavers

CORR
2008
Springer
162views Education» more  CORR 2008»
14 years 2 days ago
Welfare Undominated Groves Mechanisms
A common objective in mechanism design is to choose the outcome (for example, allocation of resources) that maximizes the sum of the agents' valuations, without introducing in...
Krzysztof R. Apt, Vincent Conitzer, Mingyu Guo, Ev...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
False-name-proof combinatorial auction protocol: Groves Mechanism with SubModular Approximation
This paper develops a new combinatorial auction protocol called the Groves Mechanism with SubModular Approximation (GM-SMA). This protocol satisfies the following characteristics:...
Makoto Yokoo, Toshihiro Matsutani, Atsushi Iwasaki

Publication
337views
15 years 3 months ago
Redistribution Mechanisms for Assignment of Heterogeneous Objects
There are p heterogeneous objects to be assigned to n competing agents (n > p) each with unit demand. It is required to design a Groves mechanism for this assignment problem ...
Sujit Gujar, Y Narahari

Publication
362views
15 years 11 months ago
A Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism for Decentralized Supply Chain Formation
In this paper, we consider a decentralized supply chain formation problem for linear, multi-echelon supply chains when the managers of the individual echelons are autonomous, ratio...
Y. Narahari and Nikesh Kumar Srivastava

Publication
580views
15 years 11 months ago
Redistribution of VCG Payments in Assignment of Heterogeneous Objects
In this paper, we seek to design a Groves mechanism for assigning p heterogeneous objects among n competing agents (n > p) with unit demand, satisfying weak budget balance, in...
Sujit Gujar, Yadati Narahari

Publication
651views
15 years 11 months ago
On Optimal Linear Redistribution of VCG Payments in Assignment of Heterogeneous Objects
There are p heterogeneous objects to be assigned to n competing agents (n > p) each with unit demand. It is required to design a Groves mechanism for this assignment problem s...
Sujit Gujar, Y Narahari