4 papers
Pricing Pandora's Boxes: Revenue Maximization in Sequential Information Acquisition
Shuchi Chawla, Dimitris Christou, Trung Dang +1
We study a mechanism design problem in which a seller controls access to information about a set of stochastic alternatives, and a buyer sequentially acquires information in order…
Fair Division Under Inaccurate Preferences
Trung Dang, Daniel Halpern, Anuran Makur +3
The fair allocation of scarce resources is a central problem in mathematics, computer science, operations research, and economics. While much of the fair-division literature assume…
Commitment Gap via Correlation Gap
Shuchi Chawla, Dimitris Christou, Trung Dang
Selection problems with costly information, dating back to Weitzman's Pandora's Box problem, have received much attention recently. We study the general model of Costly Information…
Multi-Unit Combinatorial Prophet Inequalities
Shuchi Chawla, Trung Dang, Zhiyi Huang +1
We consider a combinatorial auction setting where buyers have fractionally subadditive (XOS) valuations over the items and the seller's objective is to maximize the social welfare.…