3 papers
cs.SE2025
Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties
Serena Wang, Martino Banchio, Krzysztof Kotowicz +3
Bug bounty programs have contributed significantly to security in technology firms in the last decade, but little is known about the role of reward incentives in producing useful o…
cs.GT2025
Procurement Auctions with Best and Final Offers
Vasilis Gkatzelis, Randolph Preston McAfee, Renato Paes Leme
We study sequential procurement auctions where the sellers are provided with a ``best and final offer'' (BAFO) strategy. This strategy allows each seller to effectively ``freez…
cs.GT2024
Relying on the Metrics of Evaluated Agents
Serena Wang, Michael I. Jordan, Katrina Ligett +1
Online platforms and regulators face a continuing problem of designing effective evaluation metrics. While tools for collecting and processing data continue to progress, this has n…