5 papers
Deterministic implementation in single-item auctions
Yan Liu, Zeyu Ren, Pingzhong Tang +3
Deterministic auctions are attractive in practice due to their transparency, simplicity, and ease of implementation, motivating a sharper understanding of when they can attain the…
Stackelberg vs. Nash in the Lottery Colonel Blotto Game
Yan Liu, Bonan Ni, Weiran Shen +2
Resource competition problems are often modeled using Colonel Blotto games, where players take simultaneous actions. However, many real-world scenarios involve sequential decision-…
On Truthful Item-Acquiring Mechanisms for Reward Maximization
Liang Shan, Shuo Zhang, Jie Zhang +1
In this research, we study the problem that a collector acquires items from the owner based on the item qualities the owner declares and an independent appraiser's assessments. The…
Multiplayer General Lotto game
Yan Liu, Bonan Ni, Weiran Shen +2
In this paper, we investigate the multiplayer General Lotto game across multiple battlefields, a significant variant of the Colonel Blotto game. In this version, each player employ…
Cost Minimization for Equilibrium Transition
Haoqiang Huang, Zihe Wang, Zhide Wei +1
In this paper, we delve into the problem of using monetary incentives to encourage players to shift from an initial Nash equilibrium to a more favorable one within a game. Our main…