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Position Auctions with Externalities and Brand Effects
Patrick Hummel, R. Preston McAfee
This paper presents models for predicted click-through rates in position auctions that take into account two possibilities that are not normally considered---that the identities of…
Value of Targeting
Kshipra Bhawalkar, Patrick Hummel, Sergei Vassilvitskii
We undertake a formal study of the value of targeting data to an advertiser. As expected, this value is increasing in the utility difference between realizations of the targeting d…
Implementing Optimal Outcomes in Social Computing: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Arpita Ghosh, Patrick Hummel
In many social computing applications such as online Q&A forums, the best contribution for each task receives some high reward, while all remaining contributions receive an identic…
On consecutive quadratic non-residues: a conjecture of Issai Schur
Patrick Hummel
Issai Schur once asked if it was possible to determine a bound, preferably using elementary methods, such that for all prime numbers p greater than the bound, the greatest number o…