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We study multi-item profit maximization when there is an underlying distribution over buyers' values. In practice, a full description of the distribution is typically unavailable, so we study the setting where the mechanism designer only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Maria-Florina Balcan , Tuomas Sandholm , Ellen Vitercik

We consider a monopolist seller with $n$ heterogeneous items, facing a single buyer. The buyer has a value for each item drawn independently according to (non-identical) distributions, and her value for a set of items is additive. The…

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In this paper we formulate a contract design problem where a primary license holder wishes to profit from its excess spectrum capacity by selling it to potential secondary users/buyers. It needs to determine how to optimally price the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-07-30 Shang-Pin Sheng , Mingyan Liu

This paper considers the problem of offering a scarce object with a common unobserved quality to strategic agents in a priority queue. Each agent has a private signal over the quality of the object and observes the decisions made by other…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Itai Ashlagi , Jamie Kang , Moran Koren , Faidra Monachou

In recent years rank aggregation has received significant attention from the machine learning community. The goal of such a problem is to combine the (partially revealed) preferences over objects of a large population into a single,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-06 Yu Lu , Sahand N. Negahban

We study sequential multi-issue trading between two greedily rational agents who exchange resources from a finite set of categories. Each agent's utility depends on its allocation, but the offering agent does not know the responding agent's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Surya Murthy , Mustafa O. Karabag , Ufuk Topcu

In this paper, we consider the problem of designing incentive compatible auctions for multiple (homogeneous) units of a good, when bidders have private valuations and private budget constraints. When only the valuations are private and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-23 Sayan Bhattacharya , Vincent Conitzer , Kamesh Munagala , Lirong Xia

Information that is of relevance for decision-making is often distributed, and held by self-interested agents. Decision markets are well-suited mechanisms to elicit such information and aggregate it into conditional forecasts that can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Wenlong Wang , Thomas Pfeiffer

In this paper, spectrum access in cognitive radio networks is modeled as a repeated auction game subject to monitoring and entry costs. For secondary users, sensing costs are incurred as the result of primary users' activity. Furthermore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-14 Zhu Han , Rong Zheng , Vincent H. Poor

Diffusion auction is an emerging business model where a seller aims to incentivise buyers in a social network to diffuse the auction information thereby attracting potential buyers. We focus on designing mechanisms for multi-unit diffusion…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yuan Fang , Mengxiao Zhang , Jiamou Liu , Bakh Khoussainov , Mingyu Xiao

When making a decision as a group, there are two primary paradigms: aggregating preferences (e.g. voting, mechanism design) and aggregating information (e.g. discussion, consulting, forecasting). Almost all formally-studied group…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Mary Monroe , Bo Waggoner

Resource distribution is a fundamental problem in economic and policy design, particularly when demand and supply are not naturally aligned. Without regulation, wealthier individuals may monopolize this resource, leaving the needs of others…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 David Sychrovský , Jakub Černý , Martin Loebl

In social choice theory, (Kemeny) rank aggregation is a well-studied problem where the goal is to combine rankings from multiple voters into a single ranking on the same set of items. Since rankings can reveal preferences of voters (which a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Daniel Alabi , Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

Strategyproofness in network auctions requires that bidders not only report their valuations truthfully, but also do their best to invite neighbours from the social network. In contrast to canonical auctions, where the value-monotone…

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Randomized mechanisms, which map a set of bids to a probability distribution over outcomes rather than a single outcome, are an important but ill-understood area of computational mechanism design. We investigate the role of randomized…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-17 Patrick Briest , Shuchi Chawla , Robert Kleinberg , S. Matthew Weinberg

We study a seller who sells a single good to multiple bidders with uncertainty over the joint distribution of bidders' valuations, as well as bidders' higher-order beliefs about their opponents. The seller only knows the (possibly…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-02-16 Ethan Che

In this paper, we present a new model and two mechanisms for auctions in two-sided markets of buyers and sellers, where budget constraints are imposed on buyers. Our model incorporates polymatroidal environments, and is applicable to a wide…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Hiroshi Hirai , Ryosuke Sato

Recommendation systems when employed in markets play a dual role: they assist users in selecting their most desired items from a large pool and they help in allocating a limited number of items to the users who desire them the most. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Yigit Efe Erginbas , Soham Phade , Kannan Ramchandran

A mobile cloud computing system is composed of heterogeneous services and resources to be allocated by the cloud service provider to mobile cloud users. On one hand, some of these resources are substitutable (e.g., users can use storage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Yang Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang

The next frontier of online advertising is revenue generation from LLM-generated content. We consider a setting where advertisers aim to influence the responses of an LLM to align with their interests, while platforms seek to maximize…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ermis Soumalias , Michael J. Curry , Sven Seuken