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We study the problem of fair online resource allocation via non-monetary mechanisms, where multiple agents repeatedly share a resource without monetary transfers. Previous work has shown that every agent can guarantee $1/2$ of their ideal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 David X. Lin , Daniel Hall , Giannis Fikioris , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

The problem of detecting terms that can be interesting to the advertiser is considered. If a company has already bought some advertising terms which describe certain services, it is reasonable to find out the terms bought by competing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Dmitry I. Ignatov , Sergei O. Kuznetsov

Many-to-many matching with contracts is studied in the framework of revealed preferences. All preferences are described by choice functions that satisfy natural conditions. Under a no-externality assumption individual preferences can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Daniel Lehmann

A platform charges a producer for disclosing quality evidence to consumers before trade. It aims to maximize its revenue guarantee across potentially multiple equilibria which arise from the interdependence of producer purchase decisions…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-17 Tan Gan , Hongcheng Li

In this work we introduce a new class of mechanisms composed of a traditional Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction and a fair division scheme, in order to achieve some desired level of fairness between groups of Bayesian strategic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Georgios Birmpas , Andrea Celli , Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi , Stefano Leonardi

In pay-per click sponsored search auctions which are currently extensively used by search engines, the auction for a keyword involves a certain number of advertisers (say k) competing for available slots (say m) to display their ads. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-17 Akash Das Sarma , Sujit Gujar , Y. Narahari

Since 2019, most ad exchanges and sell-side platforms (SSPs), in the online advertising industry, shifted from second to first price auctions. Due to the fundamental difference between these auctions, demand-side platforms (DSPs) have had…

In this paper we present a theoretical framework for determining dynamic ask and bid prices of derivatives using the theory of dynamic coherent acceptability indices in discrete time. We prove a version of the First Fundamental Theorem of…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2013-06-13 Tomasz R. Bielecki , Igor Cialenco , Ismail Iyigunler , Rodrigo Rodriguez

Online bidding and auction are crucial aspects of the online advertising industry. Conventionally, there is only one slot for ad display and most current studies focus on it. Nowadays, multi-slot display advertising is gradually becoming…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zhen Gong , Lvyin Niu , Yang Zhao , Miao Xu , Zhenzhe Zheng , Haoqi Zhang , Zhilin Zhang , Fan Wu , Rongquan Bai , Chuan Yu , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Real-Time Bidding is nowadays one of the most promising systems in the online advertising ecosystem. In the presented study, the performance of RTB campaigns is improved by optimising the parameters of the users' profiles and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Luis Miralles , M. Atif Qureshi , Brian Mac Namee

Commercial entries, such as hotels, are ranked according to score by a search engine or recommendation system, and the score of each can be improved upon by making a targeted investment, e.g., advertising. We study the problem of how a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Amir Ban , Moshe Tennenholtz

Internet live streaming is widely used in online entertainment and e-commerce, where live advertising is an important marketing tool for anchors. An advertising campaign hopes to maximize the effect (such as conversions) under constraints…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-11 Bo Yang , Ruixuan Luo , Junqi Jin , Han Zhu

We study an auction setting in which bidders bid for placement of their content within a summary generated by a large language model (LLM), e.g., an ad auction in which the display is a summary paragraph of multiple ads. This generalizes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Kumar Avinava Dubey , Zhe Feng , Rahul Kidambi , Aranyak Mehta , Di Wang

In classic auction theory, reserve prices are known to be effective for improving revenue for the auctioneer against quasi-linear utility maximizing bidders. The introduction of reserve prices, however, usually do not help improve total…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Santiago Balseiro , Yuan Deng , Jieming Mao , Vahab Mirrokni , Song Zuo

Most of the work in the auction design literature assumes that bidders behave rationally based on the information available for every individual auction, and the revelation principle enables designers to restrict their efforts to incentive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Juncheng Li , Pingzhong Tang

Display advertising normally charges advertisers for every single ad impression. Specifically, if an ad in a webpage has been loaded in the browser, an ad impression is counted. However, due to the position and size of the ad slot, lots of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Weinan Zhang , Ye Pan , Tianxiong Zhou , Jun Wang

A platform commits to a search algorithm that maps prices to search order. Given this algorithm, sellers set prices, and consumers engage in sequential search. This framework generalizes the ordered search literature. We introduce a special…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-03-06 Xiaoyu Chen , Jingmin Huang , Yibo Lian

The ad-trading desks of media-buying agencies are increasingly relying on complex algorithms for purchasing advertising inventory. In particular, Real-Time Bidding (RTB) algorithms respond to many auctions -- usually Vickrey auctions --…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-20 Joaquin Fernandez-Tapia , Olivier Guéant , Jean-Michel Lasry

CDS (credit default swap) contracts that were initiated some time ago frequently have spreads and/or maturities that are not available on the current market of CDSs, and are thus illiquid. This article introduces an incomplete-market…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2014-03-07 Michael B. Walker

The purpose of Inventory Pricing is to bid the right prices to online ad opportunities, which is crucial for a Demand-Side Platform (DSP) to win advertising auctions in Real-Time Bidding (RTB). In the planning stage, advertisers need the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Xu Li , Michelle Ma Zhang , Youjun Tong , Zhenya Wang