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We introduce a dynamic mechanism design problem in which the designer wants to offer for sale an item to an agent, and another item to the same agent at some point in the future. The agent's joint distribution of valuations for the two…

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We present a unified framework for designing deterministic monotone polynomial time approximation schemes (PTAS's) for a wide class of scheduling problems on uniformly related machines. This class includes (among others) minimizing the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin , Rob van Stee

Sponsored search auctions constitute one of the most successful applications of microeconomic mechanisms. In mechanism design, auctions are usually designed to incentivize advertisers to bid their truthful valuations and to assure both the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Nicola Gatti , Alessandro Lazaric , Marco Rocco , Francesco Trovò

We study the problem of truthfully scheduling $m$ tasks to $n$ selfish unrelated machines, under the objective of makespan minimization, as was introduced in the seminal work of Nisan and Ronen [STOC'99]. Closing the current gap of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Alexander Hammerl , Diogo Poças

We study truthful mechanisms for matching and related problems in a partial information setting, where the agents' true utilities are hidden, and the algorithm only has access to ordinal preference information. Our model is motivated by the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Elliot Anshelevich , Shreyas Sekar

Scheduling on related machines ($Q||C_{\max}$) is one of the most important problems in the field of Algorithmic Mechanism Design. Each machine is controlled by a selfish agent and her valuation can be expressed via a single parameter, her…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-20 George Christodoulou , Annamaria Kovacs

We study the problem of automated mechanism design with partial verification, where each type can (mis)report only a restricted set of types (rather than any other type), induced by the principal's limited verification power. We prove…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Hanrui Zhang , Yu Cheng , Vincent Conitzer

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

We consider a fundamental dynamic allocation problem motivated by the problem of $\textit{securities lending}$ in financial markets, the mechanism underlying the short selling of stocks. A lender would like to distribute a finite number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Emily Diana , Michael Kearns , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth

This manuscript presents an alternative implementation of the truthful-in-expectation mechanism of Dughmi, Roughgarden and Yan for combinatorial auctions with weighted-matroid-rank-sum valuations. The new implementation uses only value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-07 Shaddin Dughmi , Tim Roughgarden , Jan Vondrak , Qiqi Yan

We consider the fundamental problem of designing a truthful single-item auction with the challenging objective of extracting a large fraction of the highest agent valuation as revenue. Following a recent trend in algorithm design, we assume…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Ioannis Caragiannis , Georgios Kalantzis

We study a budget-aggregation setting in which a number of voters report their ideal distribution of a budget over a set of alternatives, and a mechanism aggregates these reports into an allocation. Ideally, such mechanisms are truthful,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Mark de Berg , Rupert Freeman , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin , Markus Utke

We study no-money mechanisms for allocating indivisible items to strategic agents with additive preferences under a stochastic model. In this model, items' values are drawn from an underlying distribution and mechanisms are evaluated with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Daniel Halpern , Alexandros Psomas , Shirley Zhang

We study the problem of mechanism design for allocating a set of indivisible items among agents with private preferences on items. We are interested in such a mechanism that is strategyproof (where agents' best strategy is to report their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ankang Sun , Bo Chen

We study resource allocation in two-sided markets from a fundamental perspective and introduce a general modeling and algorithmic framework to effectively incorporate the complex and multidimensional aspects of fairness. Our main technical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Javier Cembrano , Andrés Moraga , Victor Verdugo

On-demand resource provisioning in cloud computing provides tailor-made resource packages (typically in the form of VMs) to meet users' demands. Public clouds nowadays provide more and more elaborated types of VMs, but have yet to offer the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Xiaoxi Zhang , Chuan Wu , Zongpeng Li , Francis C. M. Lau

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of $m$ goods among $n$ agents in the asymptotic setting, where each item's value for each agent is drawn from an underlying joint distribution. Prior works have shown that if this distribution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jugal Garg , Vishnu V. Narayan , Yuang Eric Shen

We study the House Allocation problem (also known as the Assignment problem), i.e., the problem of allocating a set of objects among a set of agents, where each agent has ordinal preferences (possibly involving ties) over a subset of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Piotr Krysta , David Manlove , Baharak Rastegari , Jinshan Zhang

We investigate {\em multidimensional covering mechanism-design} problems, wherein there are $m$ items that need to be covered and $n$ agents who provide covering objects, with each agent $i$ having a private cost for the covering objects he…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Hadi Minooei , Chaitanya Swamy

We revisit the well-studied problem of budget-feasible procurement, where a buyer with a strict budget constraint seeks to acquire services from a group of strategic providers (the sellers). During the last decade, several strategyproof…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Eric Balkanski , Pranav Garimidi , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Daniel Schoepflin , Xizhi Tan