3 papers
cs.DS2026
Fare Zone Assignment on Trees
Martin Hoefer, Lennart Kauther, Philipp Pabst +2
Designing fare systems for public transportation networks is a challenging task. A popular approach is to partition the network into fare zones (``zoning'') and fix journey prices…
cs.GT2025
Welfare and Beyond in Multi-Agent Contracts
Gil Aharoni, Martin Hoefer, Inbal Talgam-Cohen
A principal delegates a project to a team from a pool of agents. The project's value if all agents in exert costly effort is . To incentivize the agents to partic…
cs.GT2025
Designing Exploration Contracts
Martin Hoefer, Conrad Schecker, Kevin Schewior
We study a natural application of contract design in the context of sequential exploration problems. In our principal-agent setting, a search task is delegated to an agent. The age…