Truth-telling Reservations
计算机科学与博弈论
2007-05-23 v1 统计力学
多智能体系统
摘要
We present a mechanism for reservations of bursty resources that is both truthful and robust. It consists of option contracts whose pricing structure induces users to reveal the true likelihoods that they will purchase a given resource. Users are also allowed to adjust their options as their likelihood changes. This scheme helps users save cost and the providers to plan ahead so as to reduce the risk of under-utilization and overbooking. The mechanism extracts revenue similar to that of a monopoly provider practicing temporal pricing discrimination with a user population whose preference distribution is known in advance.
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@article{arxiv.cs/0508028,
title = {Truth-telling Reservations},
author = {Fang Wu and Zi Zhang and Bernardo A. Huberman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0508028},
year = {2007}
}