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Combinatorial Auctions are a central problem in Algorithmic Mechanism Design: pricing and allocating goods to buyers with complex preferences in order to maximize some desired objective (e.g., social welfare, revenue, or profit). The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Avrim Blum , Anupam Gupta , Yishay Mansour , Ankit Sharma

With the emergence of new online channels and information technology, digital advertising tends to substitute more and more to traditional advertising by offering the opportunity to companies to target the consumers/users that are really…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Médéric Motte , Huyên Pham

In the online (time-series) search problem, a player is presented with a sequence of prices which are revealed in an online manner. In the standard definition of the problem, for each revealed price, the player must decide irrevocably…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Spyros Angelopoulos , Shahin Kamali , Dehou Zhang

This paper studies a distributed continuous-time aggregative optimization problem, which is a fundamental problem in the price-based energy management. The objective of the distributed aggregative optimization is to minimize the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Xin Cai , Feng Xiao , Bo Wei , Aiping Wang

Over the past few years, ride-sharing has emerged as an effective way to relieve traffic congestion. A key problem for these platforms is to come up with a revenue-optimal (or GMV-optimal) pricing scheme and an induced vehicle dispatching…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Mengjing Chen , Weiran Shen , Pingzhong Tang , Song Zuo

Online Resource Allocation addresses the problem of efficiently allocating limited resources to buyers with incomplete knowledge of future requests. In our setting, buyers arrive sequentially requesting a set of items, each with a value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dimitris Fotakis , Charalampos Platanos , Thanos Tolias

In this paper we consider multidimensional mechanism design problem for selling discrete substitutable items to a group of buyers. Previous work on this problem mostly focus on stochastic description of valuations used by the seller.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Maciej Drwal

Motivated by applications such as cloud platforms allocating GPUs to users or governments deploying mobile health units across competing regions, we study the dynamic allocation of a reusable resource to strategic agents with private…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yan Dai , Negin Golrezaei , Patrick Jaillet

This paper explores the application of a reinforcement learning (RL) framework using the Q-Learning algorithm to enhance dynamic pricing strategies in the retail sector. Unlike traditional pricing methods, which often rely on static demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Mohit Apte , Ketan Kale , Pranav Datar , Pratiksha Deshmukh

We study the problem of online dynamic pricing with two types of fairness constraints: a "procedural fairness" which requires the proposed prices to be equal in expectation among different groups, and a "substantive fairness" which requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jianyu Xu , Dan Qiao , Yu-Xiang Wang

Motivated by posted price auctions where buyers are grouped in an unknown number of latent types characterized by their private values for the good on sale, we investigate revenue maximization in stochastic dynamic pricing when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Tommaso Cesari , Vianney Perchet

In this paper, we develop a new method for finding an optimal biddingstrategy in sequential auctions, using a dynamic programming technique. Theexisting method assumes that the utility of a user is represented in anadditive form. Thus, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Hiromitsu Hattori , Makoto Yokoo , Yuko Sakurai , Toramatsu Shintani

Good economic mechanisms depend on the preferences of participants in the mechanism. For example, the revenue-optimal auction for selling an item is parameterized by a reserve price, and the appropriate reserve price depends on how much the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Shuchi Chawla , Jason Hartline , Denis Nekipelov

We consider the "Offline Ad Slot Scheduling" problem, where advertisers must be scheduled to "sponsored search" slots during a given period of time. Advertisers specify a budget constraint, as well as a maximum cost per click, and may not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-21 Jon Feldman , S. Muthukrishnan , Evdokia Nikolova , Martin Pal

In this work, we focus on resource allocation in a decentralised open market. In decentralised open markets consists of multiple vendors and multiple dynamically-arriving buyers, thus makes the market complex and dynamic. Because, in these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Pankaj Mishra , Ahmed Moustafa , Takayuki Ito

Classic market design theory is rooted in static models where all participants trade simultaneously. In contrast, modern platform-mediated digital markets are fundamentally dynamic, defined by the asynchronous and stochastic arrival of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-05 Yeon-Koo Che

Optimal transport is a framework that facilitates the most efficient allocation of a limited amount of resources. However, the most efficient allocation scheme does not necessarily preserve the most fairness. In this paper, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

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

This work is motivated by our collaboration with a large consumer packaged goods (CPG) company. We have found that while the company appreciates the advantages of dynamic pricing, they deem it operationally much easier to plan out a static…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi , Jinglong Zhao

We consider some crucial problems related to the secure and reliable operation of power systems with high renewable penetrations: how much reserve should we procure, how should reserve resources distribute among different locations, and how…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-19 Jiantao Shi , Ye Guo , Lang Tong , Wenchuan Wu , Hongbin Sun