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Convexity and Duality in Optimum Real-time Bidding and Related Problems
Ryan J. Kinnear, Ravi R. Mazumdar, Peter Marbach
We study problems arising in real-time auction markets, common in e-commerce and computational advertising, where bidders face the problem of calculating optimal bids. We focus upo…
Real-time Bidding for Time Constrained Impression Contracts in First and Second Price Auctions -- Theory and Algorithms
Ryan J. Kinnear, Ravi R. Mazumdar, Peter Marbach
We study the optimal behavior of a bidder in a real-time auction subject to the requirement that a specified collections of heterogeneous items be acquired within given time constr…
Sensitivity of Mean-Field Fluctuations in Erlang loss models with randomized routing
Thirupathaiah Vasantam, Ravi R. Mazumdar
In this paper, we study a large system of servers each with capacity to process at most simultaneous jobs and an incoming job is routed to a server if it has the lowest occ…
Optimal Real-time Bidding Policies for Contract Fulfillment in Second Price Auctions
R. J. Kinnear, R. R. Mazumdar, P. Marbach
We study a real-time bidding problem resulting from a set of contractual obligations stipulating that a firm win a specified number of heterogeneous impressions or ad placements ov…
Optimal Bidding Strategies for Online Ad Auctions with Overlapping Targeting Criteria
Erik Tillberg, Peter Marbach, Ravi Mazumdar
We analyze the problem of how to optimally bid for ad spaces in online ad auctions. For this we consider the general case of multiple ad campaigns with overlapping targeting criter…
Voter and Majority Dynamics with Biased and Stubborn Agents
Arpan Mukhopadhyay, Ravi R. Mazumdar, Rahul Roy
We study binary opinion dynamics in a fully connected network of interacting agents. The agents are assumed to interact according to one of the following rules: (1) Voter rule: An…