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We introduce the "local-global" approach for a divisible portfolio and perform an equilibrium analysis for two variants of core-selecting auctions. Our main novelty is extending the Nearest-VCG pricing rule in a dynamic two-round setup,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-02-09 Lamprirni Zarpala , Dimitris Voliotis

In this paper, we design and develop a pricing model applicable to strategy proof pricing. To provide an economic stability towards its consumers. The economic model we use is Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG). By this each service provider has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Chetan Chawla , Inderveer Chana

In \cite{EK10} the use of VCG in matching markets is motivated by saying that in order to compute market clearing prices in a matching market, the auctioneer needs to know the true valuations of the bidders. Hence VCG and corresponding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Walter Kern , Bodo Manthey , Marc Uetz

A major achievement of mechanism design theory is a general method for the construction of truthful mechanisms called VCG (Vickrey, Clarke, Groves). When applying this method to complex problems such as combinatorial auctions, a difficulty…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-04 N. Nisan , A. Ronen

One of the Multi-Agent Systems that is widely used by various government agencies, buyers and sellers in a market economy, in such a manner so as to attain optimized resource allocation, is the Combinatorial Auctioning System (CAS). We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-30 Megha Saini , Shrisha Rao

Due to its theoretical virtues, several recent works propose the use of the incentive-compatible Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism for electricity markets. Coalitions of participants, however, can influence the VCG outcome to obtain…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Orcun Karaca , Maryam Kamgarpour

Market-based mechanisms such as auctions are being studied as an appropriate means for resource allocation in distributed and mulitagent decision problems. When agents value resources in combination rather than in isolation, they must often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Craig Boutilier , Moises Goldszmidt , Bikash Sabata

Using mechanised reasoning we prove that combinatorial Vickrey auctions are soundly specified in that they associate a unique outcome (allocation and transfers) to any valid input (bids). Having done so, we auto-generate verified executable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Marco B. Caminati , Manfred Kerber , Christoph Lange , Colin Rowat

Diffusion auction design for combinatorial settings is a long-standing challenge. One difficulty is that we cannot directly extend the solutions for simpler settings to combinatorial settings (like extending the Vickrey auction to VCG in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Xuanyu Li , Miao Li , Yuhan Cao , Dengji Zhao

The classic Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism ensures incentive compatibility, i.e., that truth-telling of all agents is a dominant strategy, for a static one-shot game. However, in a dynamic environment that unfolds over time, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Ke Ma , P. R. Kumar

While the classic Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism ensures incentive compatibility for a static one-shot game, it does not appear to be feasible to construct a dominant truth-telling mechanism for agents that are stochastic dynamic systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Ke Ma , P. R. Kumar

Device-to-Device communication allows a cellular user (relay node) to relay data between the base station (BS) and another cellular user (destination node). We address the problem of designing reverse auctions to assign a relay node to each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Aditya MVS , Harsh Pancholi , Priyanka P. , Gaurav S. Kasbekar

Many popular search engines run an auction to determine the placement of advertisements next to search results. Current auctions at Google and Yahoo! let advertisers specify a single amount as their bid in the auction. This bid is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gagan Aggarwal , S. Muthukrishnan , Jon Feldman

The existence of incentive-compatible computationally-efficient protocols for combinatorial auctions with decent approximation ratios is the paradigmatic problem in computational mechanism design. It is believed that in many cases good…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-14 Elchanan Mossel , Christos Papadimitriou , Michael Schapira , Yaron Singer

Existing auction mechanisms are vulnerable to bidder collusion, which substantially degrades revenue and non-colluder welfare. To design truthful mechanisms resilient to collusion, we introduce a novel approach that leverages a machine…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Sukanya Kudva , Edward Dowling , Anil Aswani

The goal of an auction is to determine commodity prices such that all participants are perfectly happy. Such a solution is called a competitive equilibrium and does not exist in general. For this reason we are interested in solutions which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-04 Johannes C. Müller

We study a class of iterative combinatorial auctions which can be viewed as subgradient descent methods for the problem of pricing bundles to balance supply and demand. We provide concrete convergence rates for auctions in this class,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Jacob Abernethy , Sébastien Lahaie , Matus Telgarsky

As commerce shifts to digital marketplaces, platforms increasingly monetize traffic through Sponsored Shopping auctions. Unlike classic ``Sponsored Search", where an advertiser typically bids for a single link, these settings involve…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Paul Dütting , Yuhao Li , Renato Paes Leme , Kelly Spendlove , Yifeng Teng

Recent attention on secure multiparty computation and blockchain technology has garnered new interest in developing auction protocols in a decentralized setting. In this paper, we propose a secure and private Vickrey auction protocol that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Lucy Klinger , Mengfan Lyu , Lei Zhang

We consider a package assignment problem with multiple units of indivisible items. The seller can specify preferences over partitions of their supply between buyers as packaging costs. We propose incremental costs together with a graph that…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-08 Simon Finster