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Probabilistic Verification for Obviously Strategyproof Mechanisms

Computer Science and Game Theory 2018-04-30 v1

Abstract

Obviously strategyproof (OSP) mechanisms maintain the incentive compatibility of agents that are not fully rational. They have been object of a number of studies since their recent definition. A research agenda, initiated in [Ferraioli&Ventre, AAAI 2017], is to find a small (possibly, the smallest) set of conditions allowing to implement an OSP mechanism. To this aim, we define a model of probabilistic verification wherein agents are caught misbehaving with a certain probability, and show how OSP mechanisms can implement every social choice function at the cost of either imposing very large fines for lies or verifying a linear number of agents.

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@article{arxiv.1804.10512,
  title  = {Probabilistic Verification for Obviously Strategyproof Mechanisms},
  author = {Diodato Ferraioli and Carmine Ventre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10512},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted at IJCAI 2018

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