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On Approximate Welfare- and Revenue-Maximizing Equilibria for Size-Interchangeable Bidders
Enrique Areyan Viqueira, Amy Greenwald, Victor Naroditskiy
In a Walrasian equilibrium (WE), all bidders are envy-free (EF), meaning that their allocation maximizes their utility; and the market clears (MC), meaning that the price of unallo…
Towards a Fair Allocation of Rewards in Multi-Level Marketing
Talal Rahwan, Victor Naroditskiy, Tomasz Michalak +2
An increasing number of businesses and organisations rely on existing users for finding new users or spreading a message. One of the widely used "refer-a-friend" mechanisms offers…
RoxyBot-06: Stochastic Prediction and Optimization in TAC Travel
Amy Greenwald, Seong Jae Lee, Victor Naroditskiy
In this paper, we describe our autonomous bidding agent, RoxyBot, who emerged victorious in the travel division of the 2006 Trading Agent Competition in a photo finish. At a high l…
Targeted Social Mobilisation in a Global Manhunt
Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan +8
Social mobilization, the ability to mobilize large numbers of people via social networks to achieve highly distributed tasks, has received significant attention in recent times. Th…
Crowdsourcing Dilemma
Victor Naroditskiy, Nicholas R. Jennings, Pascal Van Hentenryck +1
Crowdsourcing offers unprecedented potential for solving tasks efficiently by tapping into the skills of large groups of people. A salient feature of crowdsourcing---its openness o…
Possible and Necessary Winner Problem in Social Polls
Serge Gaspers, Victor Naroditskiy, Nina Narodytska +1
Social networks are increasingly being used to conduct polls. We introduce a simple model of such social polling. We suppose agents vote sequentially, but the order in which agents…