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DAGSTUHL
2006
15 years 8 months ago
Decentralization and Mechanism Design for Online Machine Scheduling
We study the online version of the classical parallel machine scheduling problem to minimize the total weighted completion time from a new perspective: We assume that the data of ...
Birgit Heydenreich, Rudolf Müller, Marc Uetz
WSC
2000
15 years 8 months ago
Agent-based simulation of dynamic online auctions
The need to understand dynamic behavior in auctions is increasing with the popularization of online auctions. Applications include designing auction mechanisms, bidding strategies...
Hideyuki Mizuta, Kenneth Steiglitz
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Honor among thieves: collusion in multi-unit auctions
We consider collusion in multi-unit auctions where the allocation and payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show how collusion can increase the utility of the collud...
Yoram Bachrach
CORR
2002
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Complexity of Mechanism Design
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism de...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
IEEEARES
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Reducing the Cost of Session Key Establishment
Scenarios such as online banking, mobile payment systems, stock trading, selling merchandise, and a host of other applications that need a high level of security have moved from th...
Bezawada Bruhadeshwar, Kishore Kothapalli, Maddi S...