%%% -*-BibTeX-*- %%% ==================================================================== %%% BibTeX-file{ %%% author = "Nelson H. F. 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Beebe, University of Utah, Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA, Tel: +1 801 581 5254, e-mail: \path|beebe@math.utah.edu|, \path|beebe@acm.org|, \path|beebe@computer.org| (Internet), URL: \path|https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/|"} %%% ==================================================================== %%% Journal abbreviations: @String{j-TEAC = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation"} %%% ==================================================================== %%% Publisher abbreviations: @String{pub-ACM = "ACM Press"} @String{pub-ACM:adr = "New York, NY 10036, USA"} %%% ==================================================================== %%% Bibliography entries: @Article{Conitzer:2013:ATE, author = "Vincent Conitzer and R. Preston Mcafee", title = "The {ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation}: an introduction", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:??", month = jan, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2399187.2399188", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:51 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Gradwohl:2013:SRC, author = "Ronen Gradwohl and Noam Livne and Alon Rosen", title = "Sequential rationality in cryptographic protocols", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:??", month = jan, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2399187.2399189", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:51 MDT 2014", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/cryptography2010.bib; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Much of the literature on rational cryptography focuses on analyzing the strategic properties of cryptographic protocols. However, due to the presence of computationally-bounded players and the asymptotic nature of cryptographic security, a definition of sequential rationality for this setting has thus far eluded researchers. We propose a new framework for overcoming these obstacles, and provide the first definitions of computational solution concepts that guarantee sequential rationality. We argue that natural computational variants of subgame perfection are too strong for cryptographic protocols. As an alternative, we introduce a weakening called threat-free Nash equilibrium that is more permissive but still eliminates the undesirable ``empty threats'' of nonsequential solution concepts. To demonstrate the applicability of our framework, we revisit the problem of implementing a mediator for correlated equilibria [Dodis et al 2000], and propose a variant of their protocol that is sequentially rational for a nontrivial class of correlated equilibria. Our treatment provides a better understanding of the conditions under which mediators in a correlated equilibrium can be replaced by a stable protocol.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Jain:2013:GTA, author = "Shaili Jain and David C. Parkes", title = "A game-theoretic analysis of the {ESP} game", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:??", month = jan, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2399187.2399190", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:51 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "``Games with a Purpose'' are interactive games that users play because they are fun, with the added benefit that the outcome of play is useful work. The ESP game, developed by von Ahn and Dabbish [2004], is an example of such a game devised to label images on the web. Since labeling images is a hard problem for computer vision algorithms and can be tedious and time-consuming for humans, the ESP game provides humans with incentive to do useful work by being enjoyable to play. We present a simple game-theoretic model of the ESP game and characterize the equilibrium behavior in our model. Our equilibrium analysis supports the fact that users appear to coordinate on low effort words. We provide an alternate model of user preferences, modeling a change that could be induced through a different scoring method, and show that equilibrium behavior in this model coordinates on high-effort words. We also give sufficient conditions for coordinating on high-effort words to be a Bayesian-Nash equilibrium. Our results suggest the possibility of formal incentive design in achieving desirable system-wide outcomes for the purpose of human computation, complementing existing considerations of robustness against cheating and human factors.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Naroditskiy:2013:OPD, author = "Victor Naroditskiy and Maria Polukarov and Nicholas R. Jennings", title = "Optimal payments in dominant-strategy mechanisms for single-parameter domains", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = jan, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2399187.2399191", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:51 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study dominant-strategy mechanisms in allocation domains where agents have one-dimensional types and quasilinear utilities. Taking an allocation function as an input, we present an algorithmic technique for finding optimal payments in a class of mechanism design problems, including utilitarian and egalitarian allocation of homogeneous items with nondecreasing marginal costs. Our results link optimality of payment functions to a geometric condition involving triangulations of polytopes. When this condition is satisfied, we constructively show the existence of an optimal payment function that is piecewise linear in agent types.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Feldman:2013:ISI, author = "Michal Feldman and Noam Nisan", title = "Introduction to the {Special Issue on Algorithmic Game Theory}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "5:1--5:??", month = may, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2465769.2465770", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:52 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Blume:2013:NFP, author = "Lawrence Blume and David Easley and Jon Kleinberg and Robert Kleinberg and {\'E}va Tardos", title = "Network Formation in the Presence of Contagious Risk", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = may, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2465769.2465771", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:52 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "There are a number of domains where agents must collectively form a network in the face of the following trade-off: each agent receives benefits from the direct links it forms to others, but these links expose it to the risk of being hit by a cascading failure that might spread over multistep paths. Financial contagion, epidemic disease, the exposure of covert organizations to discovery, and electrical power networks are all settings in which such issues have been articulated. Here we formulate the problem in terms of strategic network formation, and provide asymptotically tight bounds on the welfare of both optimal and stable networks. We find that socially optimal networks are, in a precise sense, situated just beyond a phase transition in the behavior of the cascading failures, and that stable graphs lie slightly further beyond this phase transition, at a point where most of the available welfare has been lost. Our analysis enables us to explore such issues as the trade-offs between clustered and anonymous market structures, and it exposes a fundamental sense in which very small amounts of ``over-linking'' in networks with contagious risk can have strong consequences for the welfare of the participants.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Karlin:2013:SEM, author = "Anna R. Karlin and C. Thach Nguyen and Yuval Peres", title = "Selling in Exclusive Markets: Some Observations on Prior-Free Mechanism Design", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = may, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2465769.2465772", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:52 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider prior-free benchmarks in non-matroid settings. In particular, we show that a very desirable benchmark proposed by Hartline and Roughgarden is too strong, in the sense that no truthful mechanism can compete with it even in a very simple non-matroid setting where there are two exclusive markets and the seller can only sell to agents in one of them. On the other hand, we show that there is a mechanism that competes with a symmetrized version of this benchmark. We further investigate the more traditional best fixed price profit benchmark and show that there are mechanisms that compete with it in any downward-closed settings.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Ha:2013:MDC, author = "Bach Q. Ha and Jason D. Hartline", title = "Mechanism Design via Consensus Estimates, Cross Checking, and Profit Extraction", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = may, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2465769.2465773", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:52 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "There is only one technique for prior-free optimal mechanism design that generalizes beyond the structurally benevolent setting of digital goods. This technique uses random sampling to estimate the distribution of agent values and then employs the Bayesian optimal mechanism for this estimated distribution on the remaining players. Though quite general, even for digital goods, this random sampling auction has a complicated analysis and is known to be suboptimal. To overcome these issues we generalize the consensus and profit extraction techniques from Goldberg and Hartline [2003] to structurally rich environments that include, for example, single-minded combinatorial auctions.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Goldberg:2013:CHM, author = "Paul W. Goldberg and Christos H. Papadimitriou and Rahul Savani", title = "The Complexity of the Homotopy Method, Equilibrium Selection, and {Lemke--Howson} Solutions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = may, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2465769.2465774", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:52 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We show that the widely used homotopy method for solving fixpoint problems, as well as the Harsanyi-Selten equilibrium selection process for games, are PSPACE-complete to implement. Extending our result for the Harsanyi-Selten process, we show that several other homotopy-based algorithms for finding equilibria of games are also PSPACE-complete to implement. A further application of our techniques yields the result that it is PSPACE-complete to compute any of the equilibria that could be found via the classical Lemke--Howson algorithm, a complexity-theoretic strengthening of the result in Savani and von Stengel [2006]. These results show that our techniques can be widely applied and suggest that the PSPACE-completeness of implementing homotopy methods is a general principle.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Koutsoupias:2013:CRO, author = "Elias Koutsoupias and George Pierrakos", title = "On the Competitive Ratio of Online Sampling Auctions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = may, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2465769.2465775", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:52 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study online profit-maximizing auctions for digital goods with adversarial bid selection and uniformly random arrivals; in this sense, our model lies at the intersection of prior-free mechanism design and secretary problems. Our goal is to design auctions that are constant competitive with F$^{(2)}$. We give a generic reduction that transforms any offline auction to an online one with only a loss of a factor of 2 in the competitive ratio. We also present some natural auctions, both randomized and deterministic, and study their competitive ratio. Our analysis reveals some interesting connections of one of these auctions with RSOP.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Candogan:2013:NPG, author = "Ozan Candogan and Asuman Ozdaglar and Pablo A. Parrilo", title = "Near-Potential Games: Geometry and Dynamics", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "11:1--11:??", month = may, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2465769.2465776", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:52 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Potential games are a special class of games for which many adaptive user dynamics converge to a Nash equilibrium. In this article, we study properties of near-potential games, that is, games that are close in terms of payoffs to potential games, and show that such games admit similar limiting dynamics. We first focus on finite games in strategic form. We introduce a distance notion in the space of games and study the geometry of potential games and sets of games that are equivalent, with respect to various equivalence relations, to potential games. We discuss how, given an arbitrary game, one can find a nearby game in these sets. We then study dynamics in near-potential games by focusing on continuous-time perturbed best response dynamics. We characterize the limiting behavior of this dynamics in terms of the upper contour sets of the potential function of a close potential game and approximate equilibria of the game. Exploiting structural properties of approximate equilibrium sets, we strengthen our result and show that for games that are sufficiently close to a potential game, the sequence of mixed strategies generated by this dynamics converges to a small neighborhood of equilibria whose size is a function of the distance from the set of potential games. In the second part of the article, we study continuous games and show that our approach for characterizing the limiting sets in near-potential games extends to continuous games. In particular, we consider continuous-time best response dynamics and a variant of it (where players update their strategies only if there is at least $ \epsilon $ utility improvement opportunity) in near-potential games where the strategy sets are compact and convex subsets of a Euclidean space. We show that these update rules converge to a neighborhood of equilibria (or the maximizer of the potential function), provided that the potential function of the nearby potential game satisfies some structural properties. Our results generalize the known convergence results for potential games to near-potential games.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Abernethy:2013:EMM, author = "Jacob Abernethy and Yiling Chen and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan", title = "Efficient Market Making via Convex Optimization, and a Connection to Online Learning", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "12:1--12:??", month = may, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2465769.2465777", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:52 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We propose a general framework for the design of securities markets over combinatorial or infinite state or outcome spaces. The framework enables the design of computationally efficient markets tailored to an arbitrary, yet relatively small, space of securities with bounded payoff. We prove that any market satisfying a set of intuitive conditions must price securities via a convex cost function, which is constructed via conjugate duality. Rather than deal with an exponentially large or infinite outcome space directly, our framework only requires optimization over a convex hull. By reducing the problem of automated market making to convex optimization, where many efficient algorithms exist, we arrive at a range of new polynomial-time pricing mechanisms for various problems. We demonstrate the advantages of this framework with the design of some particular markets. We also show that by relaxing the convex hull we can gain computational tractability without compromising the market institution's bounded budget. Although our framework was designed with the goal of deriving efficient automated market makers for markets with very large outcome spaces, this framework also provides new insights into the relationship between market design and machine learning, and into the complete market setting. Using our framework, we illustrate the mathematical parallels between cost-function-based markets and online learning and establish a correspondence between cost-function-based markets and market scoring rules for complete markets.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Haghpanah:2013:OAP, author = "Nima Haghpanah and Nicole Immorlica and Vahab Mirrokni and Kamesh Munagala", title = "Optimal Auctions with Positive Network Externalities", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "13:1--13:??", month = may, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2465769.2465778", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:52 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider the problem of designing auctions in social networks for goods that exhibit single-parameter submodular network externalities in which a bidder's value for an outcome is a fixed private type times a known submodular function of the allocation of his friends. Externalities pose many issues that are hard to address with traditional techniques; our work shows how to resolve these issues in a specific setting of particular interest. We operate in a Bayesian environment and so assume private values are drawn according to known distributions. We prove that the optimal auction is NP-hard to approximate pointwise, and APX-hard on average. Thus we instead design auctions whose revenue approximates that of the optimal auction. Our main result considers step-function externalities in which a bidder's value for an outcome is either zero, or equal to his private type if at least one friend has the good. For these settings, we provide a e / e + 1-approximation. We also give a 0.25-approximation auction for general single-parameter submodular network externalities, and discuss optimizing over a class of simple pricing strategies.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Othman:2013:PLS, author = "Abraham Othman and David M. Pennock and Daniel M. Reeves and Tuomas Sandholm", title = "A Practical Liquidity-Sensitive Automated Market Maker", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "3", pages = "14:1--14:??", month = sep, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2509413.2509414", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:54 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Automated market makers are algorithmic agents that enable participation and information elicitation in electronic markets. They have been widely and successfully applied in artificial-money settings, like some Internet prediction markets. Automated market makers from the literature suffer from two problems that contribute to their impracticality and impair their use beyond artificial-money settings: first, they are unable to adapt to liquidity, so that trades cause prices to move the same amount in both heavily and lightly traded markets, and second, in typical circumstances, they run at a deficit. In this article, we construct a market maker that is both sensitive to liquidity and can run at a profit. Our market maker has bounded loss for any initial level of liquidity and, as the initial level of liquidity approaches zero, worst-case loss approaches zero. For any level of initial liquidity we can establish a boundary in market state space such that, if the market terminates within that boundary, the market maker books a profit regardless of the realized outcome.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Balcan:2013:PU, author = "Maria-Florina Balcan and Avrim Blum and Yishay Mansour", title = "The Price of Uncertainty", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "3", pages = "15:1--15:??", month = sep, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2509413.2509415", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:54 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In this work, we study the degree to which small fluctuations in costs in well-studied potential games can impact the result of natural best-response and improved-response dynamics. We call this the Price of Uncertainty and study it in a wide variety of potential games including fair cost-sharing games, set-cover games, routing games, and job-scheduling games. We show that in certain cases, even extremely small fluctuations can have the ability to cause these dynamics to spin out of control and move to states of much higher social cost, whereas in other cases these dynamics are much more stable even to large degrees of fluctuation. We also consider the resilience of these dynamics to a small number of Byzantine players about which no assumptions are made. We show again a contrast between different games. In certain cases (e.g., fair cost-sharing, set-cover, job-scheduling) even a single Byzantine player can cause best-response dynamics to transition from low-cost states to states of substantially higher cost, whereas in others (e.g., the class of $ \beta $-nice games, which includes routing, market-sharing and many others) these dynamics are much more resilient. Overall, our work can be viewed as analyzing the inherent resilience or safety of games to different kinds of imperfections in player behavior, player information, or in modeling assumptions made.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Ben-Yehuda:2013:DAE, author = "Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda and Muli Ben-Yehuda and Assaf Schuster and Dan Tsafrir", title = "Deconstructing {Amazon EC2} Spot Instance Pricing", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "3", pages = "16:1--16:??", month = sep, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2509413.2509416", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:54 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Cloud providers possessing large quantities of spare capacity must either incentivize clients to purchase it or suffer losses. Amazon is the first cloud provider to address this challenge, by allowing clients to bid on spare capacity and by granting resources to bidders while their bids exceed a periodically changing spot price. Amazon publicizes the spot price but does not disclose how it is determined. By analyzing the spot price histories of Amazon's EC2 cloud, we reverse engineer how prices are set and construct a model that generates prices consistent with existing price traces. Our findings suggest that usually prices are not market-driven, as sometimes previously assumed. Rather, they are likely to be generated most of the time at random from within a tight price range via a dynamic hidden reserve price mechanism. Our model could help clients make informed bids, cloud providers design profitable systems, and researchers design pricing algorithms.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Sarne:2013:CSM, author = "David Sarne", title = "Competitive Shopbots-Mediated Markets", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "3", pages = "17:1--17:??", month = sep, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2509413.2509417", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:54 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "This article considers markets mediated by autonomous self-interested comparison-shopping agents. As in today's markets, the agents do not charge buyers for their services but rather benefit from payments obtained from sellers upon the execution of a transaction. The agents aim at maximizing their expected benefit, taking into consideration the cost incurred by the search and competition dynamics that arise in the multi-agent setting. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of such models, based on search theory principles. The analysis results in a characterization of the buyers' and agents' search strategies in equilibrium. The main result of this article is that the use of self-interested comparison-shopping agents can result in a beneficial equilibrium, where both buyers and sellers benefit, in comparison to the case where buyers control the comparison-shopping agent, and the comparison-shopping agents necessarily do not lose. This, despite the fact that the service is offered for free to buyers and its cost is essentially covered by sellers. The analysis generalizes to any setting where buyers can use self-interested agents capable of effectively performing the search (e.g., evaluating opportunities) on their behalf.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "17", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Procaccia:2013:AMD, author = "Ariel D. Procaccia and Moshe Tennenholtz", title = "Approximate Mechanism Design without Money", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "4", pages = "18:1--18:??", month = dec, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2542174.2542175", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:56 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "The literature on algorithmic mechanism design is mostly concerned with game-theoretic versions of optimization problems to which standard economic money-based mechanisms cannot be applied efficiently. Recent years have seen the design of various truthful approximation mechanisms that rely on payments. In this article, we advocate the reconsideration of highly structured optimization problems in the context of mechanism design. We explicitly argue for the first time that, in such domains, approximation can be leveraged to obtain truthfulness without resorting to payments. This stands in contrast to previous work where payments are almost ubiquitous and (more often than not) approximation is a necessary evil that is required to circumvent computational complexity. We present a case study in approximate mechanism design without money. In our basic setting, agents are located on the real line and the mechanism must select the location of a public facility; the cost of an agent is its distance to the facility. We establish tight upper and lower bounds for the approximation ratio given by strategy-proof mechanisms without payments, with respect to both deterministic and randomized mechanisms, under two objective functions: the social cost and the maximum cost. We then extend our results in two natural directions: a domain where two facilities must be located and a domain where each agent controls multiple locations.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "18", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Yildiz:2013:BOD, author = "Ercan Yildiz and Asuman Ozdaglar and Daron Acemoglu and Amin Saberi and Anna Scaglione", title = "Binary Opinion Dynamics with Stubborn Agents", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "4", pages = "19:1--19:??", month = dec, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2538508", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:56 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study binary opinion dynamics in a social network with stubborn agents who influence others but do not change their opinions. We focus on a generalization of the classical voter model by introducing nodes (stubborn agents) that have a fixed state. We show that the presence of stubborn agents with opposing opinions precludes convergence to consensus; instead, opinions converge in distribution with disagreement and fluctuations. In addition to the first moment of this distribution typically studied in the literature, we study the behavior of the second moment in terms of network properties and the opinions and locations of stubborn agents. We also study the problem of optimal placement of stubborn agents where the location of a fixed number of stubborn agents is chosen to have the maximum impact on the long-run expected opinions of agents.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "19", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Mossel:2013:MCT, author = "Elchanan Mossel and Omer Tamuz", title = "Making Consensus Tractable", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "4", pages = "20:1--20:??", month = dec, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2542174.2542176", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:56 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study a model of consensus decision making in which a finite group of Bayesian agents has to choose between one of two courses of action. Each member of the group has a private and independent signal at his or her disposal, giving some indication as to which action is optimal. To come to a common decision, the participants perform repeated rounds of voting. In each round, each agent casts a vote in favor of one of the two courses of action, reflecting his or her current belief, and observes the votes of the rest. We provide an efficient algorithm for the calculation the agents have to perform and show that consensus is always reached and that the probability of reaching a wrong decision decays exponentially with the number of agents.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "20", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Hoefer:2013:AAC, author = "Martin Hoefer and Alexander Skopalik", title = "Altruism in Atomic Congestion Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "1", number = "4", pages = "21:1--21:??", month = dec, year = "2013", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2542174.2542177", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 14 06:10:56 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "This article studies the effects of altruism, a phenomenon widely observed in practice, in the model of atomic congestion games. Altruistic behavior is modeled by a linear trade-off between selfish and social objectives. Our model can be embedded in the framework of congestion games with player-specific latency functions. Stable states are the pure Nash equilibria of these games, and we examine their existence and the convergence of sequential best-response dynamics. In general, pure Nash equilibria are often absent, and existence is NP-hard to decide. Perhaps surprisingly, if all delay functions are affine, the games remain potential games, even when agents are arbitrarily altruistic. The construction underlying this result can be extended to a class of general potential games and social cost functions, and we study a number of prominent examples. These results give important insights into the robustness of multi-agent systems with heterogeneous altruistic incentives. Furthermore, they yield a general technique to prove that stabilization is robust, even with partly altruistic agents, which is of independent interest. In addition to these results for uncoordinated dynamics, we consider a scenario with a central altruistic institution that can set incentives for the agents. We provide constructive and hardness results for finding the minimum number of altruists to stabilize an optimal congestion profile and more general mechanisms to incentivize agents to adopt favorable behavior. These results are closely related to Stackelberg routing and answer open questions raised recently in the literature.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "21", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Polevoy:2014:SCS, author = "Gleb Polevoy and Rann Smorodinsky and Moshe Tennenholtz", title = "Signaling Competition and Social Welfare", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:??", month = mar, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2560766", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 21 18:00:43 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider an environment where sellers compete over buyers. All sellers are a-priori identical and strategically signal buyers about the product they sell. In a setting motivated by online advertising in display ad exchanges, where firms use second price auctions, a firm's strategy is a decision about its signaling scheme for a stream of goods (e.g., user impressions), and a buyer's strategy is a selection among the firms. In this setting, a single seller will typically provide partial information, and consequently, a product may be allocated inefficiently. Intuitively, competition among sellers may induce sellers to provide more information in order to attract buyers and thus increase efficiency. Surprisingly, we show that such a competition among firms may yield significant loss in consumers' social welfare with respect to the monopolistic setting. Although we also show that in some cases, the competitive setting yields gain in social welfare, we provide a tight bound on that gain, which is shown to be small with respect to the preceding possible loss. Our model is tightly connected with the literature on bundling in auctions.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Albers:2014:NEN, author = "Susanne Albers and Stefan Eilts and Eyal Even-Dar and Yishay Mansour and Liam Roditty", title = "On {Nash} Equilibria for a Network Creation Game", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:??", month = mar, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2560767", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 21 18:00:43 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study a basic network creation game proposed by Fabrikant et al. [2003]. In this game, each player (vertex) can create links (edges) to other players at a cost of \alpha per edge. The goal of every player is to minimize the sum consisting of (a) the cost of the links he has created and (b) the sum of the distances to all other players. Fabrikant et al. conjectured that there exists a constant $A$ such that, for any $\alpha > A$, all nontransient Nash equilibria graphs are trees. They showed that if a Nash equilibrium is a tree, the price of anarchy is constant. In this article, we disprove the tree conjecture. More precisely, we show that for any positive integer $n_0$, there exists a graph built by $n \geq n_0$ players which contains cycles and forms a nontransient Nash equilibrium, for any $\alpha$ with $1 < \alpha \leq \sqrt n / 2$. Our construction makes use of some interesting results on finite affine planes. On the other hand, we show that, for $\alpha \geq 12 n \lceil log n \rceil$, every Nash equilibrium forms a tree. Without relying on the tree conjecture, Fabrikant et al. proved an upper bound on the price of anarchy of $O(\sqrt{\alpha})$, where $\alpha \in [2, n^2]$. We improve this bound. Specifically, we derive a constant upper bound for $\alpha \in O(\sqrt{n})$ and for $\alpha \geq 12 n \lceil log n \rceil$. For the intermediate values, we derive an improved bound of $O(1 + (\min\{\alpha^2 / n, n^2 / \alpha \})^{1 / 3})$. Additionally, we develop characterizations of Nash equilibria and extend our results to a weighted network creation game as well as to scenarios with cost sharing.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Smeulders:2014:GFM, author = "Bart Smeulders and Frits C. R. Spieksma and Laurens Cherchye and Bram {De Rock}", title = "Goodness-of-Fit Measures for Revealed Preference Tests: Complexity Results and Algorithms", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:??", month = mar, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2560793", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 21 18:00:43 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We provide results on the computational complexity of goodness-of-fit measures (i.e., Afriat's efficiency index, Varian's efficiency vector-index, and the Houtman-Maks index) associated with several revealed preference axioms (i.e., WARP, SARP, GARP, and HARP). These results explain the computational difficulties that have been observed in literature when computing these indices. Our NP-hardness results are obtained by reductions from the independent set problem. We also show that this reduction can be used to prove that no approximation algorithm achieving a ratio of $O(n^{1 - \delta})$, $\delta;> 0$ exists for Varian's index, nor for Houtman-Maks' index (unless P = NP). Finally, we give an exact polynomial-time algorithm for finding Afriat's efficiency index.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Zhang:2014:RPO, author = "Yu Zhang and Jaeok Park and Mihaela van der Schaar", title = "Rating Protocols in Online Communities", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = mar, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2560794", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 21 18:00:43 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Sustaining cooperation among self-interested agents is critical for the proliferation of emerging online communities. Providing incentives for cooperation in online communities is particularly challenging because of their unique features: a large population of anonymous agents having asymmetric interests and dynamically joining and leaving the community, operation errors, and agents trying to whitewash when they have a low standing in the community. In this article, we take these features into consideration and propose a framework for designing and analyzing a class of incentive schemes based on rating protocols, which consist of a rating scheme and a recommended strategy. We first define the concept of sustainable rating protocols under which every agent has the incentive to follow the recommended strategy given the deployed rating scheme. We then formulate the problem of designing an optimal rating protocol, which selects the protocol that maximizes the overall social welfare among all sustainable rating protocols. Using the proposed framework, we study the structure of optimal rating protocols and explore the impact of one-sided rating, punishment lengths, and whitewashing on optimal rating protocols. Our results show that optimal rating protocols are capable of sustaining cooperation, with the amount of cooperation varying depending on the community characteristics.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Emek:2014:SSR, author = "Yuval Emek and Michal Feldman and Iftah Gamzu and Renato PaesLeme and Moshe Tennenholtz", title = "Signaling Schemes for Revenue Maximization", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "2", pages = "5:1--5:??", month = jun, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2594564", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Jun 9 16:42:02 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Signaling is an important topic in the study of asymmetric information in economic settings. In particular, the transparency of information available to a seller in an auction setting is a question of major interest. We introduce the study of signaling when conducting a second price auction of a probabilistic good whose actual instantiation is known to the auctioneer but not to the bidders. This framework can be used to model impressions selling in display advertising. We establish several results within this framework. First, we study the problem of computing a signaling scheme that maximizes the auctioneer's revenue in a Bayesian setting. We show that this problem is polynomially solvable for some interesting special cases, but computationally hard in general. Second, we establish a tight bound on the minimum number of signals required to implement an optimal signaling scheme. Finally, we show that at least half of the maximum social welfare can be preserved within such a scheme.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Chen:2014:EPR, author = "Yiling Chen and Ian A. Kash and Michael Ruberry and Victor Shnayder", title = "Eliciting Predictions and Recommendations for Decision Making", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "2", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = jun, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2556271", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Jun 9 16:42:02 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "When making a decision, a decision maker selects one of several possible actions and hopes to achieve a desirable outcome. To make a better decision, the decision maker often asks experts for advice. In this article, we consider two methods of acquiring advice for decision making. We begin with a method where one or more experts predict the effect of each action and the decision maker then selects an action based on the predictions. We characterize strictly proper decision making, where experts have an incentive to accurately reveal their beliefs about the outcome of each action. However, strictly proper decision making requires the decision maker use a completely mixed strategy to choose an action. To address this limitation, we consider a second method where the decision maker asks a single expert to recommend an action. We show that it is possible to elicit the decision maker's most preferred action for a broad class of preferences of the decision maker, including when the decision maker is an expected value maximizer.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Rozen:2014:EPE, author = "Rakefet Rozen and Rann Smorodinsky", title = "Ex-Post Equilibrium and {VCG} Mechanisms", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "2", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = jun, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2594565", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Jun 9 16:42:02 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Consider an abstract social choice setting with incomplete information, where the number of alternatives is large. Albeit natural, implementing VCG mechanisms is infeasible due to the prohibitive communication constraints. However, if players restrict attention to a subset of the alternatives, feasibility may be recovered. This article characterizes the class of subsets that induce an ex-post equilibrium in the original game. It turns out that a crucial condition for such subsets to exist is the availability of a type-independent optimal social alternative for each player. We further analyze the welfare implications of these restrictions. This work follows that of Holzman et al. [2004] and Holzman and Monderer [2004] where similar analysis is done for combinatorial auctions.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Chen:2014:PAS, author = "Xujin Chen and Benjamin Doerr and Carola Doerr and Xiaodong Hu and Weidong Ma and Rob van Stee", title = "The Price of Anarchy for Selfish Ring Routing is Two", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "2", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = jun, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2548545", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Jun 9 16:42:02 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We analyze the network congestion game with atomic players, asymmetric strategies, and the maximum latency among all players as social cost. This important social cost function is much less understood than the average latency. We show that the price of anarchy is at most two, when the network is a ring and the link latencies are linear. Our bound is tight. This is the first sharp bound for the maximum latency objective.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Cary:2014:CPA, author = "Matthew Cary and Aparna Das and Benjamin Edelman and Ioannis Giotis and Kurtis Heimerl and Anna R. Karlin and Scott Duke Kominers and Claire Mathieu and Michael Schwarz", title = "Convergence of Position Auctions under Myopic Best-Response Dynamics", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "3", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = jul, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2632226", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Oct 17 12:45:12 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the dynamics of multiround position auctions, considering both the case of exogenous click-through rates and the case in which click-through rates are determined by an endogenous consumer search process. In both contexts, we demonstrate that dynamic position auctions converge to their associated static, envy-free equilibria. Furthermore, convergence is efficient, and the entry of low-quality advertisers does not slow convergence. Because our approach predominantly relies on assumptions common in the sponsored search literature, our results suggest that dynamic position auctions converge more generally.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Azar:2014:QCS, author = "Pablo Daniel Azar and Silvio Micali", title = "The Query Complexity of Scoring Rules", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "3", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = jul, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2632228", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Oct 17 12:45:12 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Proper scoring rules are crucial tools to elicit truthful information from experts. A scoring rule maps X, an expert-provided distribution over the set of all possible states of the world, and $ \omega $, a realized state of the world, to a real number representing the expert's reward for his provided information. To compute this reward, a scoring rule queries the distribution X at various states. The number of these queries is thus a natural measure of the complexity of the scoring rule. We prove that any bounded and strictly proper scoring rule that is deterministic must make a number of queries to its input distribution that is a quarter of the number of states of the world. When the state space is very large, this makes the computation of such scoring rules impractical. We also show a new stochastic scoring rule that is bounded, strictly proper, and which makes only two queries to its input distribution. Thus, using randomness allows us to have significant savings when computing scoring rules.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Alaei:2014:RSA, author = "Saeed Alaei and Azarakhsh Malekian and Aravind Srinivasan", title = "On Random Sampling Auctions for Digital Goods", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "3", pages = "11:1--11:??", month = jul, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2517148", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Oct 17 12:45:12 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In the context of auctions for digital goods, an interesting random sampling auction has been proposed by Goldberg et al. [2001]. This auction has been analyzed by Feige et al. [2005], who have shown that it obtains in expectation at least 1/15 fraction of the optimal revenue, which is substantially better than the previously proven constant bounds but still far from the conjectured lower bound of 1/4. In this article, we prove that the aforementioned random sampling auction obtains at least 1/4 fraction of the optimal revenue for a large class of instances where the number of bids above (or equal to) the optimal sale price is at least 6. We also show that this auction obtains at least 1/4.68 fraction of the optimal revenue for the small class of remaining instances, thus leaving a negligible gap between the lower and upper bound. We employ a mix of probabilistic techniques and dynamic programming to compute these bounds.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Dandekar:2014:PAR, author = "Pranav Dandekar and Nadia Fawaz and Stratis Ioannidis", title = "Privacy Auctions for Recommender Systems", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "3", pages = "12:1--12:??", month = jul, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2629665", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Oct 17 12:45:12 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study a market for private data in which a data analyst publicly releases a statistic over a database of private information. Individuals that own the data incur a cost for their loss of privacy proportional to the differential privacy guarantee given by the analyst at the time of the release. The analyst incentivizes individuals by compensating them, giving rise to a privacy auction. Motivated by recommender systems, the statistic we consider is a linear predictor function with publicly known weights. The statistic can be viewed as a prediction of the unknown data of a new individual, based on the data of individuals in the database. We formalize the trade-off between privacy and accuracy in this setting, and show that a simple class of estimates achieves an order-optimal trade-off. It thus suffices to focus on auction mechanisms that output such estimates. We use this observation to design a truthful, individually rational, proportional-purchase mechanism under a fixed budget constraint. We show that our mechanism is 5-approximate in terms of accuracy compared to the optimal mechanism, and that no truthful mechanism can achieve a $ 2 - \epsilon $ approximation, for any $\epsilon > 0$.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Balcan:2014:NOC, author = "Maria-Florina Balcan and Sara Krehbiel and Georgios Piliouras and Jinwoo Shin", title = "Near-Optimality in Covering Games by Exposing Global Information", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "4", pages = "13:1--13:??", month = oct, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2597890", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Oct 28 16:50:26 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Mechanism design for distributed systems is fundamentally concerned with aligning individual incentives with social welfare to avoid socially inefficient outcomes that can arise from agents acting autonomously. One simple and natural approach is to centrally broadcast nonbinding advice intended to guide the system to a socially near-optimal state while still harnessing the incentives of individual agents. The analytical challenge is proving fast convergence to near optimal states, and in this article we give the first results that carefully constructed advice vectors yield stronger guarantees. We apply this approach to a broad family of potential games modeling vertex cover and set cover optimization problems in a distributed setting. This class of problems is interesting because finding exact solutions to their optimization problems is NP-hard yet highly inefficient equilibria exist, so a solution in which agents simply locally optimize is not satisfactory. We show that with an arbitrary advice vector, a set cover game quickly converges to an equilibrium with cost of the same order as the square of the social cost of the advice vector. More interestingly, we show how to efficiently construct an advice vector with a particular structure with cost O (log n ) times the optimal social cost, and we prove that the system quickly converges to an equilibrium with social cost of this same order.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Bhawalkar:2014:WCG, author = "Kshipra Bhawalkar and Martin Gairing and Tim Roughgarden", title = "Weighted Congestion Games: The Price of Anarchy, Universal Worst-Case Examples, and Tightness", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "4", pages = "14:1--14:??", month = oct, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2629666", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Oct 28 16:50:26 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We characterize the Price of Anarchy (POA) in weighted congestion games, as a function of the allowable resource cost functions. Our results provide as thorough an understanding of this quantity as is already known for nonatomic and unweighted congestion games, and take the form of universal (cost function-independent) worst-case examples. One noteworthy by-product of our proofs is the fact that weighted congestion games are ``tight,'' which implies that the worst-case price of anarchy with respect to pure Nash equilibria, mixed Nash equilibria, correlated equilibria, and coarse correlated equilibria are always equal (under mild conditions on the allowable cost functions). Another is the fact that, like nonatomic but unlike atomic (unweighted) congestion games, weighted congestion games with trivial structure already realize the worst-case POA, at least for polynomial cost functions. We also prove a new result about unweighted congestion games: the worst-case price of anarchy in symmetric games is as large as in their more general asymmetric counterparts.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Fotakis:2014:PDM, author = "Dimitris Fotakis and Christos Tzamos", title = "On the Power of Deterministic Mechanisms for Facility Location Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "4", pages = "15:1--15:??", month = oct, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2665005", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Oct 28 16:50:26 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider $K$-Facility Location games, where n strategic agents report their locations in a metric space and a mechanism maps them to $K$ facilities. The agents seek to minimize their connection cost, namely the distance of their true location to the nearest facility, and may misreport their location. We are interested in deterministic mechanisms that are strategyproof, that is, ensure that no agent can benefit from misreporting her location, do not resort to monetary transfers, and achieve a bounded approximation ratio to the total connection cost of the agents (or to the $ L_p $ norm of the connection costs, for some $ p \in [1, \infty) $ or for $ p = \infty) $. Our main result is an elegant characterization of deterministic strategyproof mechanisms with a bounded approximation ratio for $2$-Facility Location on the line. In particular, we show that for instances with $ n \geq 5 $ agents, any such mechanism either admits a unique dictator or always places the facilities at the leftmost and the rightmost location of the instance. As a corollary, we obtain that the best approximation ratio achievable by deterministic strategyproof mechanisms for the problem of locating $2$ facilities on the line to minimize the total connection cost is precisely $ n - 2$. Another rather surprising consequence is that the Two-Extremes mechanism of Procaccia and Tennenholtz [2009] is the only deterministic anonymous strategyproof mechanism with a bounded approximation ratio for $2$-Facility Location on the line. The proof of the characterization employs several new ideas and technical tools, which provide new insights into the behavior of deterministic strategyproof mechanisms for $K$-Facility Location games and may be of independent interest. Employing one of these tools, we show that for every $ K \geq 3$, there do not exist any deterministic anonymous strategyproof mechanisms with a bounded approximation ratio for $K$-Facility Location on the line, even for simple instances with $ K + 1$ agents. Moreover, building on the characterization for the line, we show that there do not exist any deterministic strategy proof mechanisms with a bounded approximation ratio for $2$-Facility Location and instances with $ n \geq 3$ agents located in a star.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Michalak:2014:ICV, author = "Tomasz P. Michalak and Piotr L. Szczepa{\'n}ski and Talal Rahwan and Agata Chrobak and Simina Br{\^a}nzei and Michael Wooldridge and Nicholas R. Jennings", title = "Implementation and Computation of a Value for Generalized Characteristic Function Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "4", pages = "16:1--16:??", month = oct, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2665007", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Oct 28 16:50:26 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Generalized characteristic function games are a variation of characteristic function games, in which the value of a coalition depends not only on the identities of its members, but also on the order in which the coalition is formed. This class of games is a useful abstraction for a number of realistic settings and economic situations, such as modeling relationships in social networks. To date, two main extensions of the Shapley value have been proposed for generalized characteristic function games: the Nowak--Radzik [1994] value and the S{\'a}nchez--Berganti{\~n}os [1997] value. In this context, the present article studies generalized characteristic function games from the point of view of implementation and computation. Specifically, the article makes two key contributions. First, building upon the mechanism by Dasgupta and Chiu [1998], we present a non-cooperative mechanism that implements both the Nowak--Radzik value and the S{\'a}nchez-Berganti{\~n}os value in Subgame-Perfect Nash Equilibria in expectations. Second, in order to facilitate an efficient computation supporting the implementation mechanism, we propose the Generalized Marginal-Contribution Nets representation for this type of game. This representation extends the results of Ieong and Shoham [2005] and Elkind et al. [2009] for characteristic function games and retains their attractive computational properties.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Chen:2014:AIP, author = "Po-An Chen and Bart {De Keijzer} and David Kempe and Guido Sch{\"a}fer", title = "Altruism and Its Impact on the Price of Anarchy", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "2", number = "4", pages = "17:1--17:??", month = oct, year = "2014", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2597893", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Oct 28 16:50:26 MDT 2014", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the inefficiency of equilibria for congestion games when players are (partially) altruistic. We model altruistic behavior by assuming that player $i$'s perceived cost is a convex combination of $\alpha_i$ times his direct cost and $\alpha_i$ times the social cost. Tuning the parameters $\alpha_i$ allows smooth interpolation between purely selfish and purely altruistic behavior. Within this framework, we study primarily altruistic extensions of (atomic and nonatomic) congestion games, but also obtain some results on fair cost-sharing games and valid utility games. We derive (tight) bounds on the price of anarchy of these games for several solution concepts. Thereto, we suitably adapt the smoothness notion introduced by Roughgarden and show that it captures the essential properties to determine the robust price of anarchy of these games. Our bounds show that for atomic congestion games and cost-sharing games, the robust price of anarchy gets worse with increasing altruism, while for valid utility games, it remains constant and is not affected by altruism. However, the increase in the price of anarchy is not a universal phenomenon: For general nonatomic congestion games with uniform altruism, the price of anarchy improves with increasing altruism. For atomic and nonatomic symmetric singleton congestion games, we derive bounds on the pure price of anarchy that improve as the average level of altruism increases. (For atomic games, we only derive such bounds when cost functions are linear.) Since the bounds are also strictly lower than the robust price of anarchy, these games exhibit natural examples in which pure Nash equilibria are more efficient than more permissive notions of equilibrium.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "17", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Leyton-Brown:2015:ISI, author = "Kevin Leyton-Brown and Panos Ipeirotis", title = "Introduction to the Special Issue on {EC'12}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:??", month = mar, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2742678", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 27 17:58:56 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Caragiannis:2015:APN, author = "Ioannis Caragiannis and Angelo Fanelli and Nick Gravin and Alexander Skopalik", title = "Approximate Pure {Nash} Equilibria in Weighted Congestion Games: Existence, Efficient Computation, and Structure", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:??", month = mar, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2614687", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 27 17:58:56 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider structural and algorithmic questions related to the Nash dynamics of weighted congestion games. In weighted congestion games with linear latency functions, the existence of pure Nash equilibria is guaranteed by a potential function argument. Unfortunately, this proof of existence is inefficient and computing pure Nash equilibria in such games is a PLS-hard problem even when all players have unit weights. The situation gets worse when superlinear (e.g., quadratic) latency functions come into play; in this case, the Nash dynamics of the game may contain cycles and pure Nash equilibria may not even exist. Given these obstacles, we consider approximate pure Nash equilibria as alternative solution concepts. A $ \rho $-approximate pure Nash equilibrium is a state of a (weighted congestion) game from which no player has any incentive to deviate in order to improve her cost by a multiplicative factor higher than $ \rho $. Do such equilibria exist for small values of $ \rho $? And if so, can we compute them efficiently? We provide positive answers to both questions for weighted congestion games with polynomial latency functions by exploiting an ``approximation'' of such games by a new class of potential games that we call $ \Psi $-games. This allows us to show that these games have $ d!$-approximate pure Nash equilibria, where $d$ is the maximum degree of the latency functions. Our main technical contribution is an efficient algorithm for computing O(1)-approximate pure Nash equilibria when $d$ is a constant. For games with linear latency functions, the approximation guarantee is $ 3 + \sqrt 5 / 2 + O(\gamma)$ for arbitrarily small $ \gamma > 0$; for latency functions with maximum degree $ d \geq 2$, it is $ d 2 d + o (d)$. The running time is polynomial in the number of bits in the representation of the game and $ 1 / \gamma $. As a byproduct of our techniques, we also show the following interesting structural statement for weighted congestion games with polynomial latency functions of maximum degree $ d \geq 2 $: polynomially-long sequences of best-response moves from any initial state to a $ d O (d 2)$-approximate pure Nash equilibrium exist and can be efficiently identified in such games as long as $d$ is a constant. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first positive algorithmic results for approximate pure Nash equilibria in weighted congestion games. Our techniques significantly extend our recent work on unweighted congestion games through the use of $ \Psi $-games. The concept of approximating nonpotential games by potential ones is interesting in itself and might have further applications.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Parkes:2015:BDR, author = "David C. Parkes and Ariel D. Procaccia and Nisarg Shah", title = "Beyond Dominant Resource Fairness: Extensions, Limitations, and Indivisibilities", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:??", month = mar, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2739040", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 27 17:58:56 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the problem of allocating multiple resources to agents with heterogeneous demands. Technological advances such as cloud computing and data centers provide a new impetus for investigating this problem under the assumption that agents demand the resources in fixed proportions, known in economics as Leontief preferences. In a recent paper, Ghodsi et al. [2011] introduced the dominant resource fairness (DRF) mechanism, which was shown to possess highly desirable theoretical properties under Leontief preferences. We extend their results in three directions. First, we show that DRF generalizes to more expressive settings, and leverage a new technical framework to formally extend its guarantees. Second, we study the relation between social welfare and properties such as truthfulness; DRF performs poorly in terms of social welfare, but we show that this is an unavoidable shortcoming that is shared by every mechanism that satisfies one of three basic properties. Third, and most importantly, we study a realistic setting that involves indivisibilities. We chart the boundaries of the possible in this setting, contributing a new relaxed notion of fairness and providing both possibility and impossibility results.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Babaioff:2015:DPL, author = "Moshe Babaioff and Shaddin Dughmi and Robert Kleinberg and Aleksandrs Slivkins", title = "Dynamic Pricing with Limited Supply", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = mar, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2559152", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 27 17:58:56 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider the problem of designing revenue-maximizing online posted-price mechanisms when the seller has limited supply. A seller has k identical items for sale and is facing n potential buyers (``agents'') that are arriving sequentially. Each agent is interested in buying one item. Each agent's value for an item is an independent sample from some fixed (but unknown) distribution with support [0,1]. The seller offers a take-it-or-leave-it price to each arriving agent (possibly different for different agents), and aims to maximize his expected revenue. We focus on mechanisms that do not use any information about the distribution; such mechanisms are called detail-free (or prior-independent). They are desirable because knowing the distribution is unrealistic in many practical scenarios. We study how the revenue of such mechanisms compares to the revenue of the optimal offline mechanism that knows the distribution (``offline benchmark''). We present a detail-free online posted-price mechanism whose revenue is at most $ O((k \log n)2 / 3) $ less than the offline benchmark, for every distribution that is regular. In fact, this guarantee holds without any assumptions if the benchmark is relaxed to fixed-price mechanisms. Further, we prove a matching lower bound. The performance guarantee for the same mechanism can be improved to $ O (\sqrt k \log n) $, with a distribution-dependent constant, if the ratio $ k / n $ is sufficiently small. We show that, in the worst case over all demand distributions, this is essentially the best rate that can be obtained with a distribution-specific constant. On a technical level, we exploit the connection to multiarmed bandits (MAB). While dynamic pricing with unlimited supply can easily be seen as an MAB problem, the intuition behind MAB approaches breaks when applied to the setting with limited supply. Our high-level conceptual contribution is that even the limited supply setting can be fruitfully treated as a bandit problem.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Dutting:2015:PRT, author = "Paul D{\"u}tting and Felix Fischer and Pichayut Jirapinyo and John K. Lai and Benjamin Lubin and David C. Parkes", title = "Payment Rules through Discriminant-Based Classifiers", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "1", pages = "5:1--5:??", month = mar, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2559049", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 27 17:58:56 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In mechanism design it is typical to impose incentive compatibility and then derive an optimal mechanism subject to this constraint. By replacing the incentive compatibility requirement with the goal of minimizing expected ex post regret, we are able to adapt statistical machine learning techniques to the design of payment rules. This computational approach to mechanism design is applicable to domains with multi-dimensional types and situations where computational efficiency is a concern. Specifically, given an outcome rule and access to a type distribution, we train a support vector machine with a specific structure imposed on the discriminant function, such that it implicitly learns a corresponding payment rule with desirable incentive properties. We extend the framework to adopt succinct $k$-wise dependent valuations, leveraging a connection with maximum a posteriori assignment on Markov networks to enable training to scale up to settings with a large number of items; we evaluate this construction in the case where $ k = 2 $. We present applications to multiparameter combinatorial auctions with approximate winner determination, and the assignment problem with an egalitarian outcome rule. Experimental results demonstrate that the construction produces payment rules with low ex post regret, and that penalizing classification error is effective in preventing failures of ex post individual rationality.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Roughgarden:2015:PAG, author = "Tim Roughgarden", title = "The Price of Anarchy in Games of Incomplete Information", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "1", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = mar, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2737816", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 27 17:58:56 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We define smooth games of incomplete information. We prove an ``extension theorem'' for such games: price of anarchy bounds for pure Nash equilibria for all induced full-information games extend automatically, without quantitative degradation, to all mixed-strategy Bayes--Nash equilibria with respect to a product prior distribution over players' preferences. We also note that, for Bayes--Nash equilibria in games with correlated player preferences, there is no general extension theorem for smooth games. We give several applications of our definition and extension theorem. First, we show that many games of incomplete information for which the price of anarchy has been studied are smooth in our sense. Our extension theorem unifies much of the known work on the price of anarchy in games of incomplete information. Second, we use our extension theorem to prove new bounds on the price of anarchy of Bayes--Nash equilibria in routing games with incomplete information.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Goldstein:2015:IET, author = "Daniel G. Goldstein and R. Preston McAfee and Siddharth Suri", title = "Improving the Effectiveness of Time-Based Display Advertising", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "2", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = apr, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2716323", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Apr 21 11:23:36 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Display advertisements are typically sold by the impression, where one impression is simply one download of an ad. Previous work has shown that the longer an ad is in view, the more likely a user is to remember it and that there are diminishing returns to increased exposure time [Goldstein et al. 2011]. Since a pricing scheme that is at least partially based on time is more exact than one based solely on impressions, time-based advertising may become an industry standard. We answer an open question concerning time-based pricing schemes: how should time slots for advertisements be divided? We provide evidence that ads can be scheduled in a way that leads to greater total recollection, which advertisers value, and increased revenue, which publishers value. We document two main findings. First, we show that displaying two shorter ads results in more total recollection than displaying one longer ad of twice the duration. Second, we show that this effect disappears as the duration of these ads increases. We conclude with a theoretical prediction regarding the circumstances under which the display advertising industry would benefit if it moved to a partially or fully time-based standard.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Ganzfried:2015:SOE, author = "Sam Ganzfried and Tuomas Sandholm", title = "Safe Opponent Exploitation", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "2", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = apr, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2716322", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Apr 21 11:23:36 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider the problem of playing a repeated two-player zero-sum game safety: that is, guaranteeing at least the value of the game per period in expectation regardless of the strategy used by the opponent. Playing a stage-game equilibrium strategy at each time step clearly guarantees safety, and prior work has (incorrectly) stated that it is impossible to simultaneously deviate from a stage-game equilibrium (in hope of exploiting a suboptimal opponent) and to guarantee safety. We show that such profitable deviations are indeed possible specifically in games where certain types of ``gift'' strategies exist, which we define formally. We show that the set of strategies constituting such gifts can be strictly larger than the set of iteratively weakly-dominated strategies; this disproves another recent assertion which states that all noniteratively weakly dominated strategies are best responses to each equilibrium strategy of the other player. We present a full characterization of safe strategies, and develop efficient algorithms for exploiting suboptimal opponents while guaranteeing safety. We also provide analogous results for extensive-form games of perfect and imperfect information, and present safe exploitation algorithms and full characterizations of safe strategies for those settings as well. We present experimental results in Kuhn poker, a canonical test problem for game-theoretic algorithms. Our experiments show that (1) aggressive safe exploitation strategies significantly outperform adjusting the exploitation within stage-game equilibrium strategies only and (2) all the safe exploitation strategies significantly outperform a (nonsafe) best response strategy against strong dynamic opponents.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Hoefer:2015:SSA, author = "Martin Hoefer and Thomas Kesselheim", title = "Secondary Spectrum Auctions for Symmetric and Submodular Bidders", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = apr, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2739041", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Apr 21 11:23:36 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study truthful auctions for secondary spectrum usage in wireless networks. In this scenario, $n$ communication requests need to be allocated to $k$ available channels that are subject to interference and noise. We present the first truthful mechanisms for secondary spectrum auctions with symmetric or submodular valuations. Our approach to model interference uses an edge-weighted conflict graph, and our algorithms provide asymptotically almost optimal approximation bounds for conflict graphs with a small inductive independence number $ \rho \ll n $. This approach covers a large variety of interference models such as, for instance, the protocol model or the recently popular physical model of interference. For unweighted conflict graphs and symmetric valuations we use LP-rounding to obtain $ O(\rho)$-approximate mechanisms; for weighted conflict graphs we get a factor of $ O(\rho \cdot (\log n + \log k))$. For submodular users we combine the convex rounding framework of Dughmi et al. [2011] with randomized metarounding to obtain $ O(\rho)$-approximate mechanisms for matroid-rank-sum valuations; for weighted conflict graphs we can fully drop the dependence on $k$ to get $ O(\rho \cdot \log n)$. We conclude with promising initial results for deterministically truthful mechanisms that allow approximation factors based on $ \rho $.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Wilkens:2015:SCM, author = "Christopher A. Wilkens and Balasubramanian Sivan", title = "Single-Call Mechanisms", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "2", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = apr, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2741027", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Apr 21 11:23:36 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Truthfulness is fragile and demanding. It is oftentimes harder to guarantee truthfulness when solving a problem than it is to solve the problem itself. Even worse, truthfulness can be utterly destroyed by small uncertainties in a mechanism's outcome. One obstacle is that truthful payments depend on outcomes other than the one realized, such as the lengths of non-shortest-paths in a shortest-path auction. Single-call mechanisms are a powerful tool that circumvents this obstacle: they implicitly charge truthful payments, guaranteeing truthfulness in expectation using only the outcome realized by the mechanism. The cost of such truthfulness is a trade-off between the expected quality of the outcome and the risk of large payments. We study two of the most general domains for truthful mechanisms and largely settle when and to what extent single-call mechanisms are possible. The first single-call construction was discovered by Babaioff et al. [2010] in single-parameter domains. They give a transformation that turns any monotone, single-parameter allocation rule into a truthful-in-expectation single-call mechanism. Our first result is a natural complement to Babaioff et al. [2010]: we give a new transformation that produces a single-call VCG mechanism from any allocation rule for which VCG payments are truthful. Second, in both the single-parameter and VCG settings, we precisely characterize the possible transformations, showing that a wide variety of transformations are possible but that all take a very simple form. Finally, we study the inherent trade-off between the expected quality of the outcome and the risk of large payments. We show that our construction and that of Babaioff et al. [2010] simultaneously optimize a variety of metrics in their respective domains. Our study is motivated by settings where uncertainty in a mechanism renders other known techniques untruthful, and we offer a variety of examples where such uncertainty can arise. In particular, we analyze pay-per-click advertising auctions, where the truthfulness of the standard VCG-based auction is easily broken when the auctioneer's estimated click-through-rates are imprecise.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Chakrabarti:2015:TSO, author = "Deepayan Chakrabarti and Erik Vee", title = "Traffic Shaping to Optimize Ad Delivery", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "2", pages = "11:1--11:??", month = apr, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2739010", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Apr 21 11:23:36 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Web publishers must balance two objectives: how to keep users engaged by directing them to relevant content, and how to properly monetize this user traffic. The standard approach is to solve each problem in isolation, for example, by displaying content that is tailored to the user's interests so as to maximize clickthrough rates (CTR), and also by building a standalone ad serving system that displays ads depending on the user's characteristics, the article being viewed by the user, and advertiser-specified constraints. However, showing the user only those articles with highest expected CTR precludes the display of some ads; if the publisher had previously guaranteed the delivery of a certain volume of impressions to such ads, then underdelivery penalties might have to be paid. We propose a joint optimization of article selection and ad serving that minimizes underdelivery by shaping some of the incoming traffic to pages where underperforming ads can be displayed, while incurring only minor drops in CTR. In addition to formulating the problem, we design an online optimization algorithm that can find the optimal traffic shaping probabilities for each new user using only a cache of one number per ad contract. Experiments on a large real-world ad-serving Web portal demonstrate significant advantages over the standalone approach: a threefold reduction in underdelivery with only 10\% drop in CTR, or a 2.6-fold reduction with a 4\% CTR drop, and similar results over a wide range.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Ghosh:2015:MME, author = "Arpita Ghosh and Mohammad Mahdian and R. Preston McAfee and Sergei Vassilvitskii", title = "To Match or Not to Match: Economics of Cookie Matching in Online Advertising", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "2", pages = "12:1--12:??", month = apr, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2745801", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Apr 21 11:23:36 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Modern online advertising increasingly relies on the ability to follow the same user across the Internet using technology called cookie matching to increase efficiency in ad allocation. Web publishers today use this technology to share information about the websites a user has visited, making it possible to target advertisements to users based on their prior history. This begs the question: do publishers (who are competitors for advertising money) always have the incentive to share online information? Intuitive arguments as well as anecdotal evidence suggest that sometimes a premium publisher might suffer information sharing through an effect called information leakage: by sharing user information with the advertiser, the advertiser will be able to target the same user elsewhere on cheaper publishers, leading to a dilution of the value of the supply on the premium publishers. The goal of this article is to explore this aspect of online information sharing. We show that, when advertisers are homogeneous in the sense that their relative valuations of users are consistent, publishers always agree about the benefits of cookie matching in equilibrium: either all publishers' revenues benefit, or all suffer, from cookie matching. We also show using a simple model that, when advertisers are not homogeneous, the information leakage indeed can occur, with cookie matching helping one publisher's revenues while harming the other.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Kash:2015:EAS, author = "Ian A. Kash and Eric J. Friedman and Joseph Y. Halpern", title = "An Equilibrium Analysis of Scrip Systems", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "3", pages = "13:1--13:??", month = jun, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2659006", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:16 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "A game-theoretic model of scrip (artificial currency) systems is analyzed. It is shown that relative entropy can be used to characterize the distribution of agent wealth when all agents use threshold strategies -that is, they volunteer to do work if and only if they have below a threshold amount of money. Monotonicity of agents' best-reply functions is used to show that scrip systems have pure strategy equilibria where all agents use threshold strategies. An algorithm is given that can compute such an equilibrium and the resulting distribution of wealth.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Immorlica:2015:ILR, author = "Nicole Immorlica and Mohammad Mahdian", title = "Incentives in Large Random Two-Sided Markets", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "3", pages = "14:1--14:??", month = jun, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2656202", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:16 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Many centralized two-sided markets form a matching between participants by running a stable matching algorithm. It is a well-known fact that no matching mechanism based on a stable matching algorithm can guarantee truthfulness as a dominant strategy for participants. However, we show that in a probabilistic setting where the preference lists on one side of the market are composed of only a constant (independent of the size of the market) number of entries, each drawn from an arbitrary distribution, the number of participants that have more than one stable partner is vanishingly small. This proves (and generalizes) a conjecture of Roth and Peranson [1999]. As a corollary of this result, we show that, with high probability, the truthful strategy is the best response for a random player when the other players are truthful. We also analyze equilibria of the deferred acceptance stable matching game. We show that the game with complete information has an equilibrium in which, in expectation, a $ (1 - o(1)) $ fraction of the strategies are truthful. In the more realistic setting of a game of incomplete information, we will show that the set of truthful strategies form a $ (1 + o(1))$-approximate Bayesian--Nash equilibrium for uniformly random preferences. Our results have implications in many practical settings and are inspired by the work of Roth and Peranson [1999] on the National Residency Matching Program.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Cavallo:2015:DAA, author = "Ruggiero Cavallo and R. Preston Mcafee and Sergei Vassilvitskii", title = "Display Advertising Auctions with Arbitrage", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "3", pages = "15:1--15:??", month = jun, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2668033", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:16 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Online display advertising exchanges connect Web publishers with advertisers seeking to place ads. In many cases, the advertiser obtains value from an ad impression (a viewing by a user) only if it is clicked, and frequently advertisers prefer to pay contingent on this occurring. But at the same time, many publishers demand payment independent of clicks. Arbitragers with good estimates of click-probabilities can resolve this conflict by absorbing the risk and acting as an intermediary, paying the publisher on allocation and being paid only if a click occurs. This article examines the incentives of advertisers and arbitragers and contributes an efficient mechanism with truthful bidding by the advertisers and truthful reporting of click predictions by arbitragers as dominant strategies while, given that a hazard rate condition is satisfied, yielding increased revenue to the publisher. We provide empirical evidence based on bid data from Yahoo's Right Media Exchange suggesting that the mechanism would increase revenue in practice.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Bilo:2015:BDN, author = "Davide Bil{\`o} and Luciano Gual{\`a} and Guido Proietti", title = "Bounded-Distance Network Creation Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "3", pages = "16:1--16:??", month = jun, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2770639", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:16 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "A network creation game simulates a decentralized and noncooperative construction of a communication network. Informally, there are $n$ players sitting on the network nodes, which attempt to establish a reciprocal communication by activating, thereby incurring a certain cost, any of their incident links. The goal of each player is to have all the other nodes as close as possible in the resulting network, while buying as few links as possible. According to this intuition, any model of the game must then appropriately address a balance between these two conflicting objectives. Motivated by the fact that a player might have a strong requirement about her centrality in the network, we introduce a new setting in which a player who maintains her (maximum or average) distance to the other nodes within a given bound incurs a cost equal to the number of activated edges; otherwise her cost is unbounded. We study the problem of understanding the structure of pure Nash equilibria of the resulting games, which we call MaxBD and SumBD, respectively. For both games, we show that when distance bounds associated with players are nonuniform, then equilibria can be arbitrarily bad. On the other hand, for MaxBD, we show that when nodes have a uniform bound $ D \geq 3$ on the maximum distance, then the price of anarchy (PoA) is lower and upper bounded by 2 and $ O(n^{1 / \lfloor \log 3 D \rfloor + 1})$, respectively (i.e., PoA is constant as soon as $D$ is $ \Omega (n^\epsilon)$, for any $ \epsilon > 0$), while for the interesting case $ D = 2$, we are able to prove that the PoA is $ \Omega (\sqrt {n})$ and $ O(\sqrt {n \log n})$. For the uniform SumBD, we obtain similar (asymptotically) results and moreover show that PoA becomes constant as soon as the bound on the average distance is $ 2^{ \omega (\sqrt {\log n})}$.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Chen:2015:ISI, author = "Yiling Chen and Nicole Immorlica", title = "Introduction to the Special Issue on {WINE'13}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "4", pages = "17:1--17:??", month = jul, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2796538", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:18 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "17", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Bateni:2015:RMN, author = "Mohammadhossein Bateni and Nima Haghpanah and Balasubramanian Sivan and Morteza Zadimoghaddam", title = "Revenue Maximization with Nonexcludable Goods", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "4", pages = "18:1--18:??", month = jul, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2790131", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:18 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the design of revenue-maximizing mechanisms for selling nonexcludable public goods. In particular, we study revenue-maximizing mechanisms in Bayesian settings for facility location problems on graphs where no agent can be excluded from using a facility that has been constructed. We show that the pointwise optimization problem involved in implementing the revenue optimal mechanism, namely, optimizing over arbitrary profiles of virtual values, is hard to approximate within a factor of $ \Omega (n^{2 - \epsilon }) $ (assuming P $ \neq $ NP) even in star graphs. Furthermore, we show that optimizing the expected revenue is APX-hard. However, in a relevant special case, rooted version with identical distributions, we construct polynomial time truthful mechanisms that approximate the optimal expected revenue within a constant factor. We also study the effect of partially mitigating nonexcludability by collecting tolls for using the facilities. We show that such ``posted-price'' mechanisms obtain significantly higher revenue and often approach the optimal revenue obtainable with full excludability.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "18", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Minooei:2015:NOR, author = "Hadi Minooei and Chaitanya Swamy", title = "Near-Optimal and Robust Mechanism Design for Covering Problems with Correlated Players", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "4", pages = "19:1--19:??", month = jul, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2790133", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:18 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider the problem of designing incentive-compatible, ex-post individually rational (IR) mechanisms for covering problems in the Bayesian setting, where players' types are drawn from an underlying distribution and may be correlated, and the goal is to minimize the expected total payment made by the mechanism. We formulate a notion of incentive compatibility (IC) that we call support-based IC that is substantially more robust than Bayesian IC, and develop black-box reductions from support-based-IC mechanism design to algorithm design. For single-dimensional settings, this black-box reduction applies even when we only have an LP-relative approximation algorithm for the algorithmic problem. Thus, we obtain near-optimal mechanisms for various covering settings, including single-dimensional covering problems, multi-item procurement auctions, and multidimensional facility location.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "19", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Fotakis:2015:TFD, author = "Dimitris Fotakis and Emmanouil Zampetakis", title = "Truthfulness Flooded Domains and the Power of Verification for Mechanism Design", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "4", pages = "20:1--20:??", month = jul, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2790086", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:18 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In this work, we investigate the reasons that make symmetric partial verification essentially useless in virtually all domains. Departing from previous work, we consider any possible (finite or infinite) domain and general symmetric verification. We identify a natural property, namely, that the correspondence graph of a symmetric verification $M$ is strongly connected by finite paths along which the preferences are consistent with the preferences at the endpoints, and prove that this property is sufficient for the equivalence of truthfulness and $M$-truthfulness. In fact, defining appropriate versions of this property, we obtain this result for deterministic and randomized mechanisms with and without money. Moreover, we show that a slightly relaxed version of this property is also necessary for the equivalence of truthfulness and $M$-truthfulness. Our conditions provide a generic and convenient way of checking whether truthful implementation can take advantage of any symmetric verification scheme in any (finite or infinite) domain. Since the simplest symmetric verification is the local verification, specific cases of our result are closely related, in the case without money, to the research about the equivalence of local truthfulness and global truthfulness. To complete the picture, we consider asymmetric verification and prove that a social choice function is $M$-truthfully implementable by some asymmetric verification $M$ if and only if $f$ does not admit a cycle of profitable deviations.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "20", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Kollias:2015:RPE, author = "Konstantinos Kollias and Tim Roughgarden", title = "Restoring Pure Equilibria to Weighted Congestion Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "4", pages = "21:1--21:??", month = jul, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2781678", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:18 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Congestion games model several interesting applications, including routing and network formation games, and also possess attractive theoretical properties, including the existence of and convergence of natural dynamics to a pure Nash equilibrium. Weighted variants of congestion games that rely on sharing costs proportional to players' weights do not generally have pure-strategy Nash equilibria. We propose a new way of assigning costs to players with weights in congestion games that recovers the important properties of the unweighted model. This method is derived from the Shapley value, and it always induces a game with a (weighted) potential function. For the special cases of weighted network cost-sharing and weighted routing games with Shapley value-based cost shares, we prove tight bounds on the worst-case inefficiency of equilibria. For weighted network cost-sharing games, we precisely calculate the price of stability for any given player weight vector, while for weighted routing games, we precisely calculate the price of anarchy, as a parameter of the set of allowable cost functions.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "21", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Babichenko:2015:QCC, author = "Yakov Babichenko and Siddharth Barman", title = "Query Complexity of Correlated Equilibrium", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "4", pages = "22:1--22:??", month = jul, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2785668", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:18 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study lower bounds on the query complexity of determining correlated equilibrium. In particular, we consider a query model in which an $n$-player game is specified via a black box that returns players' utilities at pure action profiles. In this model, we establish that in order to compute a correlated equilibrium, any deterministic algorithm must query the black box an exponential (in $n$) number of times.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "22", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Aumann:2015:EFD, author = "Yonatan Aumann and Yair Dombb", title = "The Efficiency of Fair Division with Connected Pieces", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "4", pages = "23:1--23:??", month = jul, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2781776", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:18 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "The cake-cutting setting, in which a single heterogeneous good must be divided between multiple parties with different tastes, is a classic model for studying questions regarding fairness in resource allocation. In this work, we turn our attention to (economic) efficiency considerations in cake cutting, examining the possible trade-offs between meeting the fairness criteria, on the one hand, and maximizing social welfare, on the other. We focus on divisions that give each agent a single (contiguous) piece of the cake and provide tight bounds (or, in some cases, nearly tight) on the possible degradation in utilitarian and egalitarian welfare resulting from meeting the fairness requirements.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "23", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Dimitrov:2015:SPM, author = "Stanko Dimitrov and Rahul Sami and Marina A. Epelman", title = "Subsidized Prediction Mechanisms for Risk-Averse Agents", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "4", pages = "24:1--24:??", month = jul, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2716327", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:18 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In this article, we study the design and characterization of sequential prediction mechanisms in the presence of agents with unknown risk aversion. We formulate a collection of desirable properties for any sequential forecasting mechanism. We present a randomized mechanism that satisfies all of these properties, including a guarantee that it is myopically optimal for each agent to report honestly, regardless of her degree of risk aversion. We observe, however, that the mechanism has an undesirable side effect: each agent's expected reward, normalized against the inherent value of her private information, decreases exponentially with the number of agents. We prove a negative result showing that this is unavoidable: any mechanism that is myopically strategyproof for agents of all risk types, while also satisfying other natural properties of sequential forecasting mechanisms, must sometimes result in a player getting an exponentially small expected normalized reward.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "24", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Xiao:2015:SOD, author = "Yuanzhang Xiao and Mihaela {Van Der Schaar}", title = "Socially-Optimal Design of Service Exchange Platforms with Imperfect Monitoring", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "4", pages = "25:1--25:??", month = jul, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2785627", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:18 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the design of service exchange platforms in which long-lived anonymous users exchange services with each other. The users are randomly and repeatedly matched into pairs of clients and servers, and each server can choose to provide high-quality or low-quality services to the client with whom it is matched. Since the users are anonymous and incur high costs (e.g., exert high effort) in providing high-quality services, it is crucial that the platform incentivizes users to provide high-quality services. Rating mechanisms have been shown to work effectively as incentive schemes in such platforms. A rating mechanism labels each user by a rating, which summarizes the user's past behaviors, recommends a desirable behavior to each server (e.g., provide higher-quality services for clients with higher ratings), and updates each server's rating based on the recommendation and its client's report on the service quality. Based on this recommendation, a low-rating user is less likely to obtain high-quality services, thereby providing users with incentives to obtain high ratings by providing high-quality services. However, if monitoring or reporting is imperfect-clients do not perfectly assess the quality or the reports are lost-a user's rating may not be updated correctly. In the presence of such errors, existing rating mechanisms cannot achieve the social optimum. In this article, we propose the first rating mechanism that does achieve the social optimum, even in the presence of monitoring or reporting errors. On one hand, the socially-optimal rating mechanism needs to be complicated enough, because the optimal recommended behavior depends not only on the current rating distribution, but also (necessarily) on the history of past rating distributions in the platform. On the other hand, we prove that the social optimum can be achieved by ``simple'' rating mechanisms that use binary rating labels and a small set of (three) recommended behaviors. We provide design guidelines of socially-optimal rating mechanisms and a low-complexity online algorithm for the rating mechanism to determine the optimal recommended behavior.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "25", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Nath:2015:AMD, author = "Swaprava Nath and Arunava Sen", title = "Affine Maximizers in Domains with Selfish Valuations", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "3", number = "4", pages = "26:1--26:??", month = jul, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2786014", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jul 31 19:26:18 MDT 2015", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider the domain of selfish and continuous preferences over a ``rich'' allocation space and show that onto, strategyproof and allocation non-bossy social choice functions are affine maximizers. Roberts [1979] proves this result for a finite set of alternatives and an unrestricted valuation space. In this article, we show that in a subdomain of the unrestricted valuations with the additional assumption of allocation non-bossiness, using the richness of the allocations, the strategyproof social choice functions can be shown to be affine maximizers. We provide an example to show that allocation non-bossiness is indeed critical for this result. This work shows that an affine maximizer result needs a certain amount of richness split across valuations and allocations.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "26", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Dutting:2015:EMA, author = "Paul D{\"u}tting and Monika Henzinger and Ingmar Weber", title = "An Expressive Mechanism for Auctions on the {Web}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:??", month = dec, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2716312", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:19 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Auctions are widely used on the Web. Applications range from sponsored search to platforms such as eBay. In these and in many other applications the auctions in use are single-/multi-item auctions with unit demand. The main drawback of standard mechanisms for this type of auctions, such as VCG and GSP, is the limited expressiveness that they offer to the bidders. The General Auction Mechanism (GAM) of Aggarwal et al. [2009] takes a first step toward addressing the problem of limited expressiveness by computing a bidder optimal, envy-free outcome for linear utility functions with identical slopes and a single discontinuity per bidder-item pair. We show that in many practical situations this does not suffice to adequately model the preferences of the bidders, and we overcome this problem by presenting the first mechanism for piecewise linear utility functions with nonidentical slopes and multiple discontinuities. Our mechanism runs in polynomial time. Like GAM it is incentive compatible for inputs that fulfill a certain nondegeneracy assumption, but our requirement is more general than the requirement of GAM. For discontinuous utility functions that are nondegenerate as well as for continuous utility functions the outcome of our mechanism is a competitive equilibrium. We also show how our mechanism can be used to compute approximately bidder optimal, envy-free outcomes for a general class of continuous utility functions via piecewise linear approximation. Finally, we prove hardness results for even more expressive settings.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Colini-Baldeschi:2015:MKS, author = "Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi and Stefano Leonardi and Monika Henzinger and Martin Starnberger", title = "On Multiple Keyword Sponsored Search Auctions with Budgets", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:??", month = dec, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2818357", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:19 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study multiple keyword sponsored search auctions with budgets. Each keyword has multiple ad slots with a click-through rate. The bidders have additive valuations, which are linear in the click-through rates, and budgets, which are restricting their overall payments. Additionally, the number of slots per keyword assigned to a bidder is bounded. We show the following results: (1) We give the first mechanism for multiple keywords, where click-through rates differ among slots. Our mechanism is incentive compatible in expectation, individually rational in expectation, and Pareto optimal. (2) We study the combinatorial setting, where each bidder is only interested in a subset of the keywords. We give an incentive compatible, individually rational, Pareto-optimal, and deterministic mechanism for identical click-through rates. (3) We give an impossibility result for incentive compatible, individually rational, Pareto-optimal, and deterministic mechanisms for bidders with diminishing marginal valuations.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Aumann:2015:ATT, author = "Yonatan Aumann and Yair Dombb and Avinatan Hassidim", title = "Auctioning Time: Truthful Auctions of Heterogeneous Divisible Goods", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:??", month = dec, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2833086", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:19 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider the problem of auctioning time --- a one-dimensional continuously-divisible heterogeneous good --- among multiple agents. Applications include auctioning time for using a shared device, auctioning TV commercial slots, and more. Different agents may have different valuations for the different possible intervals; the goal is to maximize the aggregate utility. Agents are self-interested and may misrepresent their true valuation functions if this benefits them. Thus, we seek auctions that are truthful. Considering the case that each agent may obtain a single interval, the challenge is twofold, as we need to determine both where to slice the interval, and who gets what slice. We consider two settings: discrete and continuous. In the discrete setting, we are given a sequence of m indivisible elements ( e$_1$, \ldots, e$_m$ ), and the auction must allocate each agent a consecutive subsequence of the elements. In the continuous setting, we are given a continuous, infinitely divisible interval, and the auction must allocate each agent a subinterval. The agents' valuations are nonatomic measures on the interval. We show that, for both settings, the associated computational problem is NP-complete even under very restrictive assumptions. Hence, we provide approximation algorithms. For the discrete case, we provide a truthful auctioning mechanism that approximates the optimal welfare to within a log m factor. The mechanism works for arbitrary monotone valuations. For the continuous setting, we provide a truthful auctioning mechanism that approximates the optimal welfare to within an O (log n ) factor (where n is the number of agents). Additionally, we provide a truthful 2-approximation mechanism for the case that all pieces must be of some fixed size.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Dutting:2015:AHI, author = "Paul D{\"u}tting and Monika Henzinger and Martin Starnberger", title = "Auctions for Heterogeneous Items and Budget Limits", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = dec, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2818351", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:19 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study individual rational, Pareto-optimal, and incentive compatible mechanisms for auctions with heterogeneous items and budget limits. We consider settings with multiunit demand and additive valuations. For single-dimensional valuations we prove a positive result for randomized mechanisms, and a negative result for deterministic mechanisms. While the positive result allows for private budgets, the negative result is for public budgets. For multidimensional valuations and public budgets we prove an impossibility result that applies to deterministic and randomized mechanisms. Taken together this shows the power of randomization in certain settings with heterogeneous items, but it also shows its limitations.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Alon:2015:HPT, author = "Noga Alon and Robert Bredereck and Jiehua Chen and Stefan Kratsch and Rolf Niedermeier and Gerhard J. Woeginger", title = "How to Put Through Your Agenda in Collective Binary Decisions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "1", pages = "5:1--5:??", month = dec, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2837467", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:19 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider the following decision-making scenario: a society of voters has to find an agreement on a set of proposals, and every single proposal is to be accepted or rejected. Each voter supports a certain subset of the proposals-the favorite ballot of this voter-and opposes the remaining ones. He accepts a ballot if he supports more than half of the proposals in this ballot. The task is to decide whether there exists a ballot approving a specified number of selected proposals (agenda) such that all voters (or a strict majority of them) accept this ballot. We show that, on the negative side, both problems are NP-complete, and on the positive side, they are fixed-parameter tractable with respect to the total number of proposals or with respect to the total number of voters. We look into further natural parameters and study their influence on the computational complexity of both problems, thereby providing both tractability and intractability results. Furthermore, we provide tight combinatorial bounds on the worst-case size of an accepted ballot in terms of the number of voters.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Fragiadakis:2015:SMM, author = "Daniel Fragiadakis and Atsushi Iwasaki and Peter Troyan and Suguru Ueda and Makoto Yokoo", title = "Strategyproof Matching with Minimum Quotas", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "1", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = dec, year = "2015", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2841226", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:19 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study matching markets in which institutions may have minimum and maximum quotas. Minimum quotas are important in many settings, such as hospital residency matching, military cadet matching, and school choice, but current mechanisms are unable to accommodate them, leading to the use of ad hoc solutions. We introduce two new classes of strategyproof mechanisms that allow for minimum quotas as an explicit input and show that our mechanisms improve welfare relative to existing approaches. Because minimum quotas cause a theoretical incompatibility between standard fairness and nonwastefulness properties, we introduce new second-best axioms and show that they are satisfied by our mechanisms. Last, we use simulations to quantify (1) the magnitude of the potential efficiency gains from our mechanisms and (2) how far the resulting assignments are from the first-best definitions of fairness and nonwastefulness. Combining both the theoretical and simulation results, we argue that our mechanisms will improve the performance of matching markets with minimum quota constraints in practice.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Babaioff:2016:MDS, author = "Moshe Babaioff and Moran Feldman and Moshe Tennenholtz", title = "Mechanism Design with Strategic Mediators", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "2", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = feb, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2841227", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:20 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider the problem of designing mechanisms that interact with strategic agents through strategic intermediaries (or mediators), and investigate the cost to society due to the mediators' strategic behavior. Selfish agents with private information are each associated with exactly one strategic mediator, and can interact with the mechanism exclusively through that mediator. Each mediator aims to optimize the combined utility of his agents, while the mechanism aims to optimize the combined utility of all agents. We focus on the problem of facility location on a metric induced by a publicly known tree. With nonstrategic mediators, there is a dominant strategy mechanism that is optimal. We show that when both agents and mediators act strategically, there is no dominant strategy mechanism that achieves any approximation. We, thus, slightly relax the incentive constraints, and define the notion of a two-sided incentive compatible mechanism. We show that the 3-competitive deterministic mechanism suggested by Procaccia and Tennenholtz [2013] and Dekel et al. [2010] for lines extends naturally to trees, and is still 3-competitive as well as two-sided incentive compatible. This is essentially the best possible (follows from Dekel et al. [2010] and Procaccia and Tennenholtz [2013]). We then show that by allowing randomization one can construct a 2-competitive randomized mechanism that is two-sided incentive compatible, and this is also essentially tight. This result also reduces a gap left in the work of Procaccia and Tennenholtz [2013] and Lu et al. [2009] for the problem of designing strategy-proof mechanisms for weighted agents with no mediators on a line. We also investigate a generalization of the preceding setting where there are multiple levels of mediators.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Roughgarden:2016:NCS, author = "Tim Roughgarden and Okke Schrijvers", title = "Network Cost-Sharing without Anonymity", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "2", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = feb, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2841228", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:20 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider network cost-sharing games with nonanonymous cost functions, where the cost of each edge is a submodular function of its users, and this cost is shared using the Shapley value. Nonanonymous cost functions model asymmetries between the players, which can arise from different bandwidth requirements, durations of use, services needed, and so on. These games can possess multiple Nash equilibria of wildly varying quality. The goal of this article is to identify well-motivated equilibrium refinements that admit good worst-case approximation bounds. Our primary results are tight bounds on the cost of strong Nash equilibria and potential function minimizers in network cost-sharing games with nonanonymous cost functions, parameterized by the set C of allowable submodular cost functions. These two worst-case bounds coincide for every set C, and equal the summability parameter introduced in Roughgarden and Sundararajan [2009] to characterize efficiency loss in a family of cost-sharing mechanisms. Thus, a single parameter simultaneously governs the worst-case inefficiency of network cost-sharing games (in two incomparable senses) and cost-sharing mechanisms. This parameter is always at most the $k$th Harmonic number $H_k \approx \ln k$, where $k$ is the number of players, and is constant for many function classes of interest.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Christodoulou:2016:TBP, author = "George Christodoulou and Annam{\'a}ria Kov{\'a}cs and Alkmini Sgouritsa and Bo Tang", title = "Tight Bounds for the Price of Anarchy of Simultaneous First-Price Auctions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = feb, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2847520", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:20 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the price of anarchy (PoA) of simultaneous first-price auctions (FPAs) for buyers with submodular and subadditive valuations. The current best upper bounds for the Bayesian price of anarchy (BPoA) of these auctions are e /( e --- 1) [Syrgkanis and Tardos 2013] and 2 [Feldman et al. 2013], respectively. We provide matching lower bounds for both cases even for the case of full information and for mixed Nash equilibria via an explicit construction. We present an alternative proof of the upper bound of e /( e --- 1) for FPAs with fractionally subadditive valuations that reveals the worst-case price distribution, which is used as a building block for the matching lower bound construction. We generalize our results to a general class of item bidding auctions that we call bid-dependent auctions (including FPAs and all-pay auctions) where the winner is always the highest bidder and each bidder's payment depends only on his own bid. Finally, we apply our techniques to discriminatory price multiunit auctions. We complement the results of de Keijzer et al. [2013] for the case of subadditive valuations by providing a matching lower bound of 2. For the case of submodular valuations, we provide a lower bound of 1.109. For the same class of valuations, we were able to reproduce the upper bound of e /( e --- 1) using our nonsmooth approach.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Christodoulou:2016:PSP, author = "George Christodoulou and Martin Gairing", title = "Price of Stability in Polynomial Congestion Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "2", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = feb, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2841229", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:20 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "The price of anarchy (PoA) in congestion games has attracted a lot of research over the past decade. This has resulted in a thorough understanding of this concept. In contrast, the price of stability (PoS), which is an equally interesting concept, is much less understood. In this article, we consider congestion games with polynomial cost functions with nonnegative coefficients and maximum degree d. We give matching bounds for the PoS in such games-that is, our technique provides the exact value for any degree d. For linear congestion games, tight bounds were previously known. Those bounds hold even for the more restricted case of dominant equilibria, which may not exist. We give a separation result showing that this is not possible for congestion games with quadratic cost functions-in other words, the PoA for the subclass of games that admit a dominant strategy equilibrium is strictly smaller than the PoS for the general class.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Hoefer:2016:TSD, author = "Martin Hoefer and Thomas Kesselheim and Berthold V{\"o}cking", title = "Truthfulness and Stochastic Dominance with Monetary Transfers", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "2", pages = "11:1--11:??", month = feb, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2847522", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Feb 6 08:20:20 MST 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider truthfulness concepts for auctions with payments based on first- and second-order stochastic dominance. We assume bidders consider wealth in standard quasilinear form as valuation minus payments. Additionally, they are sensitive to risk in the distribution of wealth stemming from randomized mechanisms. First- and second-order stochastic dominance are well known to capture risk sensitivity, and we apply these concepts to capture truth-telling incentives for bidders. As our first main result, we provide a complete characterization of all social-choice functions over binary single-parameter domains that can be implemented by a mechanism that is truthful in first- and second-order stochastic dominance. We show that these are exactly the social-choice functions implementable by truthful-in-expectation mechanisms, and we provide a novel payment rule that guarantees stochastic dominance. As our second main result we extend the celebrated randomized metarounding approach for truthful-in-expectation mechanisms in packing domains. We design mechanisms that are truthful in first-order stochastic dominance by spending only a logarithmic factor in the approximation guarantee.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Mcafee:2016:I, author = "Preston Mcafee and {\'E}va Tardos", title = "Introduction", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "3", pages = "12:1--12:??", month = jun, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2916701", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Jun 16 09:24:17 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Chen:2016:TMA, author = "Yiling Chen and Stephen Chong and Ian A. Kash and Tal Moran and Salil Vadhan", title = "Truthful Mechanisms for Agents That Value Privacy", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "3", pages = "13:1--13:??", month = jun, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2892555", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Jun 16 09:24:17 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Recent work has constructed economic mechanisms that are both truthful and differentially private. In these mechanisms, privacy is treated separately from truthfulness; it is not incorporated in players' utility functions (and doing so has been shown to lead to nontruthfulness in some cases). In this work, we propose a new, general way of modeling privacy in players' utility functions. Specifically, we only assume that if an outcome o has the property that any report of player i would have led to o with approximately the same probability, then o has a small privacy cost to player i. We give three mechanisms that are truthful with respect to our modeling of privacy: for an election between two candidates, for a discrete version of the facility location problem, and for a general social choice problem with discrete utilities (via a VCG-like mechanism). As the number n of players increases, the social welfare achieved by our mechanisms approaches optimal (as a fraction of n ).", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Devanur:2016:WPO, author = "Nikhil R. Devanur and Zhiyi Huang and Nitish Korula and Vahab S. Mirrokni and Qiqi Yan", title = "Whole-Page Optimization and Submodular Welfare Maximization with Online Bidders", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "3", pages = "14:1--14:??", month = jun, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2892563", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Jun 16 09:24:17 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In the context of online ad serving, display ads may appear on different types of web pages, where each page includes several ad slots and therefore multiple ads can be shown on each page. The set of ads that can be assigned to ad slots of the same page needs to satisfy various prespecified constraints including exclusion constraints, diversity constraints, and the like. Upon arrival of a user, the ad serving system needs to allocate a set of ads to the current webpage respecting these per-page allocation constraints. Previous slot-based settings ignore the important concept of a page and may lead to highly suboptimal results in general. In this article, motivated by these applications in display advertising and inspired by the submodular welfare maximization problem with online bidders, we study a general class of page-based ad allocation problems, present the first (tight) constant-factor approximation algorithms for these problems, and confirm the performance of our algorithms experimentally on real-world datasets. A key technical ingredient of our results is a novel primal-dual analysis for handling free disposal, which updates dual variables using a ``level function'' instead of a single level and unifies with previous analyses of related problems. This new analysis method allows us to handle arbitrarily complicated allocation constraints for each page. Our main result is an algorithm that achieves a $1 - 1 / e - o(1)$-competitive ratio. Moreover, our experiments on real-world datasets show significant improvements of our page-based algorithms compared to the slot-based algorithms. Finally, we observe that our problem is closely related to the submodular welfare maximization (SWM) problem. In particular, we introduce a variant of the SWM problem with online bidders and show how to solve this problem using our algorithm for whole-page optimization.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Caragiannis:2016:WDN, author = "Ioannis Caragiannis and Ariel D. Procaccia and Nisarg Shah", title = "When Do Noisy Votes Reveal the Truth?", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "3", pages = "15:1--15:??", month = jun, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2892565", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Jun 16 09:24:17 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "A well-studied approach to the design of voting rules views them as maximum likelihood estimators; given votes that are seen as noisy estimates of a true ranking of the alternatives, the rule must reconstruct the most likely true ranking. We argue that this is too stringent a requirement and instead ask: how many votes does a voting rule need to reconstruct the true ranking? We define the family of pairwise-majority consistent rules and show that for all rules in this family, the number of samples required from Mallows's noise model is logarithmic in the number of alternatives, and that no rule can do asymptotically better (while some rules like plurality do much worse). Taking a more normative point of view, we consider voting rules that surely return the true ranking as the number of samples tends to infinity (we call this property accuracy in the limit ); this allows us to move to a higher level of abstraction. We study families of noise models that are parameterized by distance functions and find voting rules that are accurate in the limit for all noise models in such general families. We characterize the distance functions that induce noise models for which pairwise-majority consistent rules are accurate in the limit and provide a similar result for another novel family of position-dominance consistent rules. These characterizations capture three well-known distance functions.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Easley:2016:IGG, author = "David Easley and Arpita Ghosh", title = "Incentives, Gamification, and Game Theory: an Economic Approach to Badge Design", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "3", pages = "16:1--16:??", month = jun, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2910575", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Jun 16 09:24:17 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Gamification is growing increasingly prevalent as a means to incentivize user engagement of social media sites that rely on user contributions. Badges, or equivalent rewards, such as top-contributor lists that are used to recognize a user's contributions on a site, clearly appear to be valued by users who actively pursue and compete for them. However, different sites use different badge designs, varying how, and for what, badges are awarded. Some sites, such as StackOverflow, award badges for meeting fixed levels of contribution. Other sites, such as Amazon and Y! Answers, reward users for being among some top set of contributors on the site, corresponding to a competitive standard of performance. Given that users value badges, and that contributing to a site requires effort, how badges are designed will affect the incentives-therefore the participation and effort-elicited from strategic users on a site. We take a game-theoretic approach to badge design, analyzing the incentives created by widely used badge designs in a model in which winning a badge is valued, effort is costly, and potential contributors to the site endogenously decide whether or not to participate, and how much total effort to put into their contributions to the site. We analyze equilibrium existence, as well as equilibrium participation and effort, in an absolute standards mechanism $M_\alpha$ in which badges are awarded for meeting some absolute level of (observed) effort, and a relative standards mechanism $M_\rho$ corresponding to competitive standards, as in a top-$\rho$ contributor badge. We find that equilibria always exist in both mechanisms, even when the value from winning a badge depends endogenously on the number of other winners. However, $M_\alpha$ has zero-participation equilibria for standards that are too high, whereas all equilibria in $M_\rho$ elicit nonzero participation for all possible $\rho$, provided that $\rho$ is specified as a fixed number rather than as a fraction of actual contributors (note that the two are not equivalent in a setting with endogenous participation). Finally, we ask whether or not a site should explicitly announce the number of users winning a badge. The answer to this question is determined by the curvature of the value of winning the badge as a function of the number of other winners.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Roberts:2016:RTS, author = "Ben Roberts and Dinan Gunawardena and Ian A. Kash and Peter Key", title = "Ranking and Tradeoffs in Sponsored Search Auctions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "3", pages = "17:1--17:??", month = jun, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2910576", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Jun 16 09:24:17 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In a sponsored search auction, decisions about how to rank ads impose tradeoffs between objectives, such as revenue and welfare. In this article, we examine how these tradeoffs should be made. We begin by arguing that the most natural solution concept to evaluate these tradeoffs is the lowest symmetric Nash equilibrium (SNE). As part of this argument, we generalise the well-known connection between the lowest SNE and the VCG outcome. We then propose a new ranking algorithm, loosely based on the revenue-optimal auction, that uses a reserve price to order the ads (not just to filter them) and give conditions under which it raises more revenue than simply applying that reserve price. Finally, we conduct extensive simulations examining the tradeoffs enabled by different ranking algorithms and show that our proposed algorithm enables superior operating points by a variety of metrics.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "17", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Roughgarden:2016:ORM, author = "Tim Roughgarden and Inbal Talgam-Cohen", title = "Optimal and Robust Mechanism Design with Interdependent Values", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "3", pages = "18:1--18:??", month = jun, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2910577", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Jun 16 09:24:17 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study interdependent value settings and extend several results from the well-studied independent private values model to these settings. For revenue-optimal mechanism design, we give conditions under which Myerson's virtual value-based mechanism remains optimal with interdependent values. One of these conditions is robustness of the truthfulness and individual rationality guarantees, in the sense that they are required to hold ex-post. We then consider an even more robust class of mechanisms called ``prior independent'' (``detail free''), and show that, by simply using one of the bidders to set a reserve price, it is possible to extract near-optimal revenue in an interdependent values setting. This shows that a considerable level of robustness is achievable for interdependent values in single-parameter environments.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "18", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Conitzer:2016:ISI, author = "Vincent Conitzer and David Easley", title = "Introduction to the Special Issue on {EC'14}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "4", pages = "19:1--19:??", month = aug, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2953046", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Aug 29 06:37:22 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "19", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Othman:2016:CFT, author = "Abraham Othman and Christos Papadimitriou and Aviad Rubinstein", title = "The Complexity of Fairness Through Equilibrium", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "4", pages = "20:1--20:??", month = aug, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2956583", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Aug 29 06:37:22 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Competitive equilibrium from equal incomes (CEEI) is a well-known fair allocation mechanism with desirable fairness and efficiency properties; however, with indivisible resources, a CEEI may not exist [Foley 1967; Varian 1974; Thomson and Varian 1985]. It was shown in Budish [2011] that in the case of indivisible resources, there is always an allocation, called A-CEEI, that is approximately fair, approximately truthful, and approximately efficient for some favorable approximation parameters. A heuristic search that attempts to find this approximation is used in practice to assign business school students to courses. In this article, we show that finding the A-CEEI allocation guaranteed to exist by Budish's theorem is PPAD-complete. We further show that finding an approximate equilibrium with better approximation guarantees is even harder: NP-complete.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "20", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Hassidim:2016:LCM, author = "Avinatan Hassidim and Yishay Mansour and Shai Vardi", title = "Local Computation Mechanism Design", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "4", pages = "21:1--21:??", month = aug, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2956584", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Aug 29 06:37:22 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We introduce the notion of local computation mechanism design -designing game-theoretic mechanisms that run in polylogarithmic time and space. Local computation mechanisms reply to each query in polylogarithmic time and space, and the replies to different queries are consistent with the same global feasible solution. When the mechanism employs payments, the computation of the payments is also done in polylogarithmic time and space. Furthermore, the mechanism needs to maintain incentive compatibility with respect to the allocation and payments. We present local computation mechanisms for two classical game-theoretical problems: stable matching and job scheduling. For stable matching, some of our techniques may have implications to the global (non-LCA (Local Computation Algorithm)) setting. Specifically, we show that when the men's preference lists are bounded, we can achieve an arbitrarily good approximation to the stable matching within a fixed number of iterations of the Gale--Shapley algorithm.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "21", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Ghosh:2016:OCD, author = "Arpita Ghosh and Robert Kleinberg", title = "Optimal Contest Design for Simple Agents", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "4", pages = "22:1--22:??", month = aug, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2930955", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Aug 29 06:37:22 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Incentives are more likely to elicit desired outcomes when they are designed based on accurate models of agents' strategic behavior. A growing literature, however, suggests that people do not quite behave like standard economic agents in a variety of environments, both online and offline. What consequences might such differences have for the optimal design of mechanisms in these environments? In this article, we explore this question in the context of optimal contest design for simple agents-agents who strategically reason about whether or not to participate in a system, but not about the input they provide to it. Specifically, consider a contest where n potential contestants with types $ (q_i, c^i) $ each choose between participating and producing a submission of quality q$^i$ at cost c$^i$, versus not participating at all to maximize their utilities. How should a principal distribute a total prize V among the n ranks to maximize some increasing function of the qualities of elicited submissions in a contest with such simple agents? We first solve the optimal contest design problem for settings where agents have homogeneous participation costs $ c^i = c$. Here, the contest that maximizes every increasing function of the elicited contributions is always a simple contest, awarding equal prizes of $ V / j^*$ each to the top $ j^*= V / c - \Theta (\sqrt { V / (c \ln (V / c))})$ contestants. This is in contrast to the optimal contest structure in comparable models with strategic effort choices, where the optimal contest is either a winner-take-all contest or awards possibly unequal prizes, depending on the curvature of agents' effort cost functions. We next address the general case with heterogeneous costs where agents' types $ (q^i, c^i)$ are inherently two dimensional, significantly complicating equilibrium analysis. With heterogeneous costs, the optimal contest depends on the objective being maximized: our main result here is that the winner-take-all contest is a 3-approximation of the optimal contest when the principal's objective is to maximize the quality of the best elicited contribution. The proof of this result hinges around a ``subequilibrium'' lemma establishing a stochastic dominance relation between the distribution of qualities elicited in an equilibrium and a subequilibrium --- a strategy profile that is a best response for all agents who choose to participate in that strategy profile; this relation between equilibria and subequilibria may be of more general interest.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "22", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Fudenberg:2016:RRR, author = "Drew Fudenberg and Alexander Peysakhovich", title = "Recency, Records, and Recaps: Learning and Nonequilibrium Behavior in a Simple Decision Problem", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "4", pages = "23:1--23:??", month = aug, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2956581", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Aug 29 06:37:22 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Nash equilibrium takes optimization as a primitive, but suboptimal behavior can persist in simple stochastic decision problems. This has motivated the development of other equilibrium concepts such as cursed equilibrium and behavioral equilibrium. We experimentally study a simple adverse selection (or ``lemons'') problem and find that learning models that heavily discount past information (i.e., display recency bias) explain patterns of behavior better than Nash, cursed, or behavioral equilibrium. Providing counterfactual information or a record of past outcomes does little to aid convergence to optimal strategies, but providing sample averages (``recaps'') gets individuals most of the way to optimality. Thus, recency effects are not solely due to limited memory but stem from some other form of cognitive constraints. Our results show the importance of going beyond static optimization and incorporating features of human learning into economic models used in both understanding phenomena and designing market institutions.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "23", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Goldberg:2016:BQC, author = "Paul W. Goldberg and Aaron Roth", title = "Bounds for the Query Complexity of Approximate Equilibria", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "4", pages = "24:1--24:??", month = aug, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2956582", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Aug 29 06:37:22 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We analyze the number of payoff queries needed to compute approximate equilibria of multi-player games. We find that query complexity is an effective tool for distinguishing the computational difficulty of alternative solution concepts, and we develop new techniques for upper- and lower bounding the query complexity. For binary-choice games, we show logarithmic upper and lower bounds on the query complexity of approximate correlated equilibrium. For well-supported approximate correlated equilibrium (a restriction where a player's behavior must always be approximately optimal, in the worst case over draws from the distribution) we show a linear lower bound, thus separating the query complexity of well supported approximate correlated equilibrium from the standard notion of approximate correlated equilibrium. Finally, we give a query-efficient reduction from the problem of computing an approximate well-supported Nash equilibrium to the problem of verifying a well supported Nash equilibrium, where the additional query overhead is proportional to the description length of the game. This gives a polynomial-query algorithm for computing well supported approximate Nash equilibria (and hence correlated equilibria) in concisely represented games. We identify a class of games (which includes congestion games) in which the reduction can be made not only query efficient, but also computationally efficient.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "24", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Fearnley:2016:FAN, author = "John Fearnley and Rahul Savani", title = "Finding Approximate {Nash} Equilibria of Bimatrix Games via Payoff Queries", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "4", number = "4", pages = "25:1--25:??", month = aug, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2956579", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Aug 29 06:37:22 MDT 2016", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the deterministic and randomized query complexity of finding approximate equilibria in a $ k \times k $ bimatrix game. We show that the deterministic query complexity of finding an \epsilon -Nash equilibrium when $ \epsilon < 1 / 2 $ is $ \Omega (k^2) $, even in zero-one constant-sum games. In combination with previous results [Fearnley et al. 2013], this provides a complete characterization of the deterministic query complexity of approximate Nash equilibria. We also study randomized querying algorithms. We give a randomized algorithm for finding a $ (3 - \sqrt {5 / 2 + \epsilon })$-Nash equilibrium using $ O(k \log k / \epsilon^2)$ payoff queries, which shows that the $ 1 / 2$ barrier for deterministic algorithms can be broken by randomization. For well-supported Nash equilibria (WSNE), we first give a randomized algorithm for finding an $ \epsilon $-WSNE of a zero-sum bimatrix game using $ O (k \log k / \epsilon^4)$ payoff queries, and we then use this to obtain a randomized algorithm for finding a $ (2 / 3 + \epsilon)$-WSNE in a general bimatrix game using $ O(k \log k / \epsilon^4)$ payoff queries. Finally, we initiate the study of lower bounds against randomized algorithms in the context of bimatrix games, by showing that randomized algorithms require $ \Omega (k^2)$ payoff queries in order to find an $ \epsilon $-Nash equilibrium with $ \epsilon < 1 / 4 k$, even in zero-one constant-sum games. In particular, this rules out query-efficient randomized algorithms for finding exact Nash equilibria.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "25", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Hassidim:2016:G, author = "Avinatan Hassidim and Haim Kaplan and Yishay Mansour and Noam Nisan", title = "The {AND--OR} Game", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:??", month = nov, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2897186", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Apr 3 11:39:17 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider a simple simultaneous first price auction for two identical items in a complete information setting. Our goal is to analyze this setting for a simple, yet highly interesting, AND--OR game, where one agent is single minded and the other is unit demand. We find a mixed equilibrium of this game and show that every other equilibrium admits the same expected allocation and payments. In addition, we study the equilibrium, highlighting the change in revenue and social welfare as a function of the players' valuations.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Borodin:2016:LGM, author = "Allan Borodin and Brendan Lucier", title = "On the Limitations of Greedy Mechanism Design for Truthful Combinatorial Auctions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:??", month = nov, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2956585", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Apr 3 11:39:17 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study mechanisms for the combinatorial auction (CA) problem, in which $m$ objects are sold to rational agents and the goal is to maximize social welfare. Of particular interest is the special case of $s$-CAs, where agents are interested in sets of size at most $s$, for which a simple greedy algorithm obtains an $ s + 1 $ approximation, but no polynomial time deterministic truthful mechanism is known to attain an approximation ratio better than $ O(m / \sqrt {\log m})$. We view this not only as an extreme gap between the power of greedy auctions and truthful greedy auctions, but also as exemplifying the gap between the known power of truthful and non-truthful polynomial time deterministic algorithms. We associate the notion of greediness with a broad class of algorithms, known as priority algorithms, which encapsulate many natural auction methods. This motivates us to ask: how well can a truthful greedy algorithm approximate the optimal social welfare for CA problems? We show that no truthful greedy priority algorithm can obtain an approximation to the CA problem that is sublinear in $m$, even for $s$-CAs with $ s \geq 2$. Our inapproximations are independent of any time constraints on the mechanism and are purely a consequence of the greedy-type restriction. We conclude that any truthful combinatorial auction mechanism with a non-trivial approximation factor must fall outside the scope of many natural auction methods.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Harks:2016:RQC, author = "Tobias Harks and Philipp {Von Falkenhausen}", title = "Robust Quantitative Comparative Statics for a Multimarket Paradox", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:??", month = nov, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2956580", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Apr 3 11:39:17 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We introduce a quantitative approach to comparative statics that allows to bound the maximum effect of an exogenous parameter change on a system's equilibrium. The motivation for this approach is a well-known paradox in multimarket Cournot competition, where a positive price shock on a monopoly market may actually reduce the monopolist's profit. We use our approach to quantify for the first time the worst-case profit reduction for multimarket oligopolies exposed to arbitrary positive price shocks. For markets with affine price functions and firms with convex cost technologies, we show that the relative profit loss of any firm is at most 25\%, no matter how many firms compete in the oligopoly. We further investigate the impact of positive price shocks on total profit of all firms as well as on social welfare. We find tight bounds also for these measures showing that total profit and social welfare decreases by at most 25\% and 16.6\%, respectively. Finally, we show that in our model, mixed, correlated, and coarse correlated equilibria are essentially unique, thus, all our bounds apply to these game solutions, as well.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Hummel:2016:WDI, author = "Patrick Hummel and R. Preston Mcafee", title = "When Does Improved Targeting Increase Revenue?", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = nov, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2956586", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Apr 3 11:39:17 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In second-price auctions, we find that improved targeting via enhanced information disclosure decreases revenue when there are two bidders and increases revenue if there are at least four symmetric bidders with values drawn from a distribution with a monotone hazard rate. With asymmetries, improved targeting increases revenue if the most frequent winner wins less than 30.4\% of the time under a model in which shares are well defined, but can decrease revenue otherwise. We derive analogous results for position auctions. Finally, we show that revenue can vary nonmonotonically with the number of bidders who are able to take advantage of improved targeting.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Piliouras:2016:RSP, author = "Georgios Piliouras and Evdokia Nikolova and Jeff S. Shamma", title = "Risk Sensitivity of Price of Anarchy under Uncertainty", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "5:1--5:??", month = nov, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2930956", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Apr 3 11:39:17 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In game theory, the price of anarchy framework studies efficiency loss in decentralized environments. Optimization and decision theory, on the other hand, explore tradeoffs between optimality and robustness in the case of single-agent decision making under uncertainty. What happens when we combine both approaches? We examine connections between the efficiency loss due to decentralization and the efficiency loss due to uncertainty and establish tight performance guarantees for distributed systems in uncertain environments. We present applications based on novel variants of atomic congestion games with uncertain costs, for which we provide tight performance bounds under a wide range of risk attitudes. Our results establish that the individual's attitude toward uncertainty has a critical effect on system performance and therefore should be a subject of close and systematic investigation.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Devanur:2016:RCP, author = "Nikhil R. Devanur and Jugal Garg and L{\'a}szl{\'o} A. V{\'e}gh", title = "A Rational Convex Program for Linear {Arrow--Debreu} Markets", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = nov, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2930658", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Apr 3 11:39:17 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We present a new flow-type convex program describing equilibrium solutions to linear Arrow--Debreu markets. Whereas convex formulations were previously known ([Nenakov and Primak 1983; Jain 2007; Cornet 1989]), our program exhibits several new features. It provides a simple necessary and sufficient condition and a concise proof of the existence and rationality of equilibria, settling an open question raised by Vazirani [2012]. As a consequence, we also obtain a simple new proof of the result in Mertens [2003] that the equilibrium prices form a convex polyhedral set.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Chau:2016:TMC, author = "Chi-Kin Chau and Khaled Elbassioni and Majid Khonji", title = "Truthful Mechanisms for Combinatorial Allocation of Electric Power in Alternating Current Electric Systems for Smart Grid", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = nov, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2955089", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Apr 3 11:39:17 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Traditional studies of combinatorial auctions often only consider linear constraints. The rise of smart grid presents a new class of auctions, characterized by quadratic constraints. This article studies the complex-demand knapsack problem, in which the demands are complex valued and the capacity of supplies is described by the magnitude of total complex-valued demand. This naturally captures the power constraints in alternating current electric systems. In this article, we provide a more complete study and generalize the problem to the multi-minded version, beyond the previously known $ \frac {1}{2}$-approximation algorithm for only a subclass of the problem. More precisely, we give a truthful polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the case $ \phi \in [0, \frac {\pi }{2} - \delta]$ and a truthful fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS), which fully optimizes the objective function but violates the capacity constraint by at most $ (1 + \epsilon)$, for the case $ \phi \in (\frac {\pi }{2}, \pi - \delta]$, where $ \phi $ is the maximum argument of any complex-valued demand and $ \epsilon, \delta > 0$ are arbitrarily small constants. We complement these results by showing that, unless P=NP, neither a PTAS forg the case $ \phi \in (\frac {\pi }{2}, \pi \delta]$ nor any bi-criteria approximation algorithm with polynomial guarantees for the case when $ \phi $ is arbitrarily close to $ \pi $ (that is, when $ \delta $ is arbitrarily close to 0) can exist.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Feldman:2016:DCC, author = "Michal Feldman and Ofir Geri", title = "Do Capacity Constraints Constrain Coalitions?", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = nov, year = "2016", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2955090", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Apr 3 11:39:17 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study strong equilibria in symmetric capacitated cost-sharing connection games. In these games, a graph with designated source $s$ and sink $t$ is given, and each edge is associated with some cost. Each agent chooses strategically an $s$--$t$ path, knowing that the cost of each edge is shared equally between all agents using it. Two settings of cost-sharing connection games have been previously studied: (i) games where coalitions can form, and (ii) games where edges are associated with capacities; both settings are inspired by real-life scenarios. In this work we combine these scenarios and analyze strong equilibria (profiles where no coalition can deviate) in capacitated games. This combination gives rise to new phenomena that do not occur in the previous settings. Our contribution is twofold. First, we provide a topological characterization of networks that always admit a strong equilibrium. Second, we establish tight bounds on the efficiency loss that may be incurred due to strategic behavior, as quantified by the strong price of anarchy (and stability) measures. Interestingly, our results qualitatively differ from those obtained in the analysis of each scenario alone, and the combination of coalitions and capacities entails the introduction of more refined topology classes than previously studied.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Brandt:2017:CDB, author = "Felix Brandt and Markus Brill", title = "Computing Dominance-Based Solution Concepts", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = mar, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2963093", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Two common criticisms of Nash equilibrium are its dependence on very demanding epistemic assumptions and its computational intractability. We study the computational properties of less demanding set-valued solution concepts that are based on varying notions of dominance. These concepts are intuitively appealing, always exist, and admit unique minimal solutions in important subclasses of games. Examples include Shapley's saddles, Harsanyi and Selten's primitive formations, Basu and Weibull's CURB sets, and Dutta and Laslier's minimal covering set. Based on a unifying framework proposed by Duggan and Le Breton, we formulate two generic algorithms for computing these concepts and investigate for which classes of games and which properties of the underlying dominance notion the algorithms are sound and efficient. We identify two sets of conditions that are sufficient for polynomial-time computability and show that the conditions are satisfied, for instance, by saddles and primitive formations in normal-form games, minimal CURB sets in two-player games, and the minimal covering set in symmetric matrix games. Our positive algorithmic results explain regularities observed in the literature, but also apply to several solution concepts whose computational complexity was previously unknown.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Conitzer:2017:FEL, author = "Vincent Conitzer and Preston McAfee", title = "Farewell Editorial: Looking Back on Our Terms Editing {ACM TEAC} and into the Future", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = mar, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3079047", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9e", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Pennock:2017:ENT, author = "David Pennock and Ilya Segal", title = "Editorial from the New {TEAC} {Co-Editors-in-Chief}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = mar, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3084545", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9ee", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Pai:2017:ATL, author = "Mallesh M. Pai and Aaron Roth and Jonathan Ullman", title = "An Antifolk Theorem for Large Repeated Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "2", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = mar, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2976734", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In this article, we study infinitely repeated games in settings of imperfect monitoring. We first prove a family of theorems showing that when the signals observed by the players satisfy a condition known as $ (\epsilon, \gamma)$-differential privacy, the folk theorem has little bite: for values of $ \epsilon $ and $ \gamma $ sufficiently small, for a fixed discount factor, any equilibrium of the repeated game involves players playing approximate equilibria of the stage game in every period. Next we argue that in large games ($n$-player games in which unilateral deviations by single players have only a small impact on the utility of other players), many monitoring settings naturally lead to signals that satisfy $ (\epsilon, \gamma)$-differential privacy for $ \epsilon $ and $ \gamma $ tending to zero as the number of players $n$ grows large. We conclude that in such settings, the set of equilibria of the repeated game collapses to the set of equilibria of the stage game. Our results nest and generalize previous results of Green [1980] and Sabourian [1990], suggesting that differential privacy is a natural measure of the ``largeness'' of a game. Further, techniques from the literature on differential privacy allow us to prove quantitative bounds, where the existing literature focuses on limiting results.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Azaria:2017:DMM, author = "Amos Azaria and David Sarne and Yonatan Aumann", title = "Distributed Matching with Mixed Maximum--Minimum Utilities", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "2", pages = "11:1--11:??", month = mar, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3038911", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In this article, we study distributed agent matching with search friction in environments characterized by costly exploration, where each agent's utility from forming a partnership is influenced by some linear combination of the maximum and the minimum among the two agents' competence. The article provides a cohesive analysis for such case, proving the equilibrium structure for the different min-max linear combinations that may be used. The article presents an extensive equilibrium analysis of such settings, proving three distinct resulting patterns of the acceptance thresholds used by the different agents. The first relates to settings where a greater emphasis is placed on the minimum type, or in the extreme case where the minimum type solely determines the output. In these cases, the assortative matching characteristic holds, where all agents set their threshold below their own type and the greater is the agent type, the greater is its threshold. When the utility from the partnership formation is solely determined by the maximum type, we show that there exists a type $ x^* $ where partnerships form if and only if one of the agents has a type equal to or greater than $ x^* $. When a greater emphasis is placed on the maximum type (but not only), we prove that assortative matching never holds, and the change in the agents' acceptance thresholds can frequently shift from an increase to a decrease.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Chan:2017:PAW, author = "Hau Chan and Jing Chen and Gowtham Srinivasan", title = "Provision-After-Wait with Common Preferences", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "2", pages = "12:1--12:??", month = mar, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3038910", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In this article, we study the Provision-after-Wait problem in healthcare (Braverman, Chen, and Kannan, 2016). In this setting, patients seek a medical procedure that can be performed by different hospitals of different costs. Each patient has a value for each hospital and a budget-constrained government/planner pays for the expenses of the patients. Patients are free to choose hospitals, but the planner controls how much money each hospital gets paid and thus how many patients each hospital can serve (in one budget period, say, one month or one year). Waiting times are used in order to balance the patients' demand, and the planner's goal is to find a stable assignment that maximizes the social welfare while keeping the expenses within the budget. It has been shown that the optimal stable assignment is NP-hard to compute, and, beyond this, little is known about the complexity of the Provision-after-Wait problem. We start by showing that this problem is in fact strongly NP-hard, and thus does not have a Fully Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme (FPTAS). We then focus on the common preference setting, where the patients have the same ranking over the hospitals. Even when the patients perceive the hospitals' values to them based on the same quality measurement-referred to as proportional preferences, which has been widely studied in resource allocation-the problem is still NP-hard. However, in a more general setting where the patients are ordered according to the differences of their values between consecutive hospitals, we construct an FPTAS for it. To develop our results, we characterize the structure of optimal stable assignments and their social welfare, and we consider a new combinatorial optimization problem that may be of independent interest, the ordered Knapsack problem. Optimal stable assignments are deterministic and ex-post individually rational for patients. The downside is that waiting times are dead-loss to patients and may burn a lot of social welfare. If randomness is allowed, then the planner can use lotteries as a rationing tool: The hope is that they reduce the patients' waiting times, although they are interim individually rational instead of ex-post. Previous study has only considered lotteries for two hospitals. In our setting, for arbitrary number of hospitals, we characterize the structure of the optimal lottery scheme and conditions under which using lotteries generates better (expected) social welfare than using waiting times.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Babaioff:2017:PPU, author = "Moshe Babaioff and Liad Blumrosen and Shaddin Dughmi and Yaron Singer", title = "Posting Prices with Unknown Distributions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "2", pages = "13:1--13:??", month = mar, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3037382", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider a dynamic auction model, where bidders sequentially arrive to the market. The values of the bidders for the item for sale are independently drawn from a distribution, but this distribution is unknown to the seller. The seller offers a personalized take-it-or-leave-it price for each arriving bidder and aims to maximize revenue. We study how well can such sequential posted-price mechanisms approximate the optimal revenue that would be achieved if the distribution was known to the seller. On the negative side, we show that sequential posted-price mechanisms cannot guarantee a constant fraction of this revenue when the class of candidate distributions is unrestricted. We show that this impossibility holds even for randomized mechanisms and even if the set of possible distributions is very small or when the seller has a prior distribution over the candidate distributions. On the positive side, we devise a simple posted-price mechanism that guarantees a constant fraction of the known-distribution revenue when all candidate distributions exhibit the monotone hazard rate property.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Fadaei:2017:TMG, author = "Salman Fadaei and Martin Bichler", title = "A Truthful Mechanism for the Generalized Assignment Problem", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "3", pages = "14:1--14:??", month = aug, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3105787", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We propose a truthful-in-expectation, $ (1 - 1 / e)$-approximation mechanism for a strategic variant of the generalized assignment problem (GAP). In GAP, a set of items has to be optimally assigned to a set of bins without exceeding the capacity of any singular bin. In the strategic variant of the problem we study, values for assigning items to bins are the private information of bidders and the mechanism should provide bidders with incentives to truthfully report their values. The approximation ratio of the mechanism is a significant improvement over the approximation ratio of the existing truthful mechanism for GAP. The proposed mechanism comprises a novel convex optimization program as the allocation rule as well as an appropriate payment rule. To implement the convex program in polynomial time, we propose a fractional local search algorithm which approximates the optimal solution within an arbitrarily small error leading to an approximately truthful-in-expectation mechanism. The proposed algorithm improves upon the existing optimization algorithms for GAP in terms of simplicity and runtime while the approximation ratio closely matches the best approximation ratio known for GAP when all inputs are publicly known.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Jaggard:2017:DBG, author = "Aaron D. Jaggard and Neil Lutz and Michael Schapira and Rebecca N. Wright", title = "Dynamics at the Boundary of Game Theory and Distributed Computing", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "3", pages = "15:1--15:??", month = aug, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3107182", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We use ideas from distributed computing and game theory to study dynamic and decentralized environments in which computational nodes, or decision makers, interact strategically and with limited information. In such environments, which arise in many real-world settings, the participants act as both economic and computational entities. We exhibit a general non-convergence result for a broad class of dynamics in asynchronous settings. We consider implications of our result across a wide variety of interesting and timely applications: game dynamics, circuit design, social networks, Internet routing, and congestion control. We also study the computational and communication complexity of testing the convergence of asynchronous dynamics. Our work opens a new avenue for research at the intersection of distributed computing and game theory.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Anshelevich:2017:EFP, author = "Elliot Anshelevich and Koushik Kar and Shreyas Sekar", title = "Envy-Free Pricing in Large Markets: Approximating Revenue and Welfare", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "3", pages = "16:1--16:??", month = aug, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3105786", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the classic setting of envy-free pricing, in which a single seller chooses prices for its many items, with the goal of maximizing revenue once the items are allocated. Despite the large body of work addressing such settings, most versions of this problem have resisted good approximation factors for maximizing revenue; this is true even for the classic unit-demand case. In this article, we study envy-free pricing with unit-demand buyers, but unlike previous work we focus on large markets: ones in which the demand of each buyer is infinitesimally small compared to the size of the overall market. We assume that the buyer valuations for the items they desire have a nice (although reasonable) structure, that is, that the aggregate buyer demand has a monotone hazard rate and that the values of every buyer type come from the same support. For such large markets, our main contribution is a 1.88-approximation algorithm for maximizing revenue, showing that good pricing schemes can be computed when the number of buyers is large. We also give a $ (e, 2)$-bicriteria algorithm that simultaneously approximates both maximum revenue and welfare, thus showing that it is possible to obtain both good revenue and welfare at the same time. We further generalize our results by relaxing some of our assumptions and quantify the necessary tradeoffs between revenue and welfare in our setting. Our results are the first known approximations for large markets and crucially rely on new lower bounds, which we prove for the revenue-maximizing prices.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Frongillo:2017:GPM, author = "Rafael Frongillo and Jens Witkowski", title = "A Geometric Perspective on Minimal Peer Prediction", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "3", pages = "17:1--17:??", month = aug, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3070903", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Aug 9 16:06:10 MDT 2017", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Minimal peer prediction mechanisms truthfully elicit private information (e.g., opinions or experiences) from rational agents without the requirement that ground truth is eventually revealed. In this article, we use a geometric perspective to prove that minimal peer prediction mechanisms are equivalent to power diagrams, a type of weighted Voronoi diagram. Using this characterization and results from computational geometry, we show that many of the mechanisms in the literature are unique up to affine transformations. We also show that classical peer prediction is ``complete'' in that every minimal mechanism can be written as a classical peer prediction mechanism for some scoring rule. Finally, we use our geometric characterization to develop a general method for constructing new truthful mechanisms, and we show how to optimize for the mechanisms' effort incentives and robustness.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "17", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Cole:2017:ASR, author = "Richard Cole and Shravas Rao", title = "Applications of $ \alpha $-Strongly Regular Distributions to {Bayesian} Auctions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "4", pages = "18:1--18:??", month = dec, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3157083", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Dec 22 18:33:00 MST 2017", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Two classes of distributions that are widely used in the analysis of Bayesian auctions are the monotone hazard rate (MHR) and regular distributions. They can both be characterized in terms of the rate of change of the associated virtual value functions: for MHR distributions, the condition is that for values $ v < v^' $, $ \phi (v^') - \phi (v) \geq v^' - v $, and for regular distributions, $ \phi (v^') - \phi (v) \geq 0 $. Cole and Roughgarden introduced the interpolating class of $ \alpha $-strongly regular distributions ($ \alpha $-SR distributions for short), for which $ \phi (v^') - \phi (v) \geq \alpha (v^' v)$, for $ 0 \leq \alpha \leq 1$. In this article, we investigate five distinct auction settings for which good expected revenue bounds are known when the bidders' valuations are given by MHR distributions. In every case, we show that these bounds degrade gracefully when extended to $ \alpha $-SR distributions. For four of these settings, the auction mechanism requires knowledge of these distributions (in the remaining setting, the distributions are needed only to ensure good bounds on the expected revenue). In these cases, we also investigate what happens when the distributions are known only approximately via samples, specifically how to modify the mechanisms so that they remain effective and how the expected revenue depends on the number of samples.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "18", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Giannakopoulos:2017:VMB, author = "Yiannis Giannakopoulos and Maria Kyropoulou", title = "The {VCG} Mechanism for {Bayesian} Scheduling", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "4", pages = "19:1--19:??", month = dec, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3105968", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Dec 22 18:33:00 MST 2017", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the problem of scheduling m tasks to n selfish, unrelated machines in order to minimize the makespan, in which the execution times are independent random variables, identical across machines. We show that the VCG mechanism, which myopically allocates each task to its best machine, achieves an approximation ratio of O (ln n \&frac; ln ln n ). This improves significantly on the previously best known bound of O ( m / n ) for prior-independent mechanisms, given by Chawla et al. [7] under the additional assumption of Monotone Hazard Rate (MHR) distributions. Although we demonstrate that this is tight in general, if we do maintain the MHR assumption, then we get improved, (small) constant bounds for m {$>$}= n ln n i.i.d. tasks. We also identify a sufficient condition on the distribution that yields a constant approximation ratio regardless of the number of tasks.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "19", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Assadi:2017:FCD, author = "Sepehr Assadi and Sanjeev Khanna and Yang Li and Rakesh Vohra", title = "Fast Convergence in the Double Oral Auction", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "4", pages = "20:1--20:??", month = dec, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3084358", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Dec 22 18:33:00 MST 2017", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "A classical trading experiment consists of a set of unit demand buyers and unit supply sellers with identical items. Each agent's value or opportunity cost for the item is his private information, and preferences are quasilinear. Trade between agents employs a double oral auction (DOA) in which both buyers and sellers call out bids or offers that an auctioneer recognizes. Transactions resulting from accepted bids and offers are recorded. This continues until there are no more acceptable bids or offers. Remarkably, the experiment consistently terminates in a Walrasian price. The main result of this article is a mechanism in the spirit of the DOA that converges to a Walrasian equilibrium in a polynomial number of steps, thus providing a theoretical basis for the empirical phenomenon described previously. It is well known that computation of a Walrasian equilibrium for this market corresponds to solving a maximum weight bipartite matching problem. The uncoordinated but mildly rational responses of agents thus solve in a distributed fashion a maximum weight bipartite matching problem that is encoded by their private valuations. We show, furthermore, that every Walrasian equilibrium is reachable by some sequence of responses. This is in contrast to the well-known auction algorithms for this problem that only allow one side to make offers and thus essentially choose an equilibrium that maximizes the surplus for the side making offers. Our results extend to the setting where not every agent pair is allowed to trade with each other.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "20", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Bjelde:2017:ISP, author = "Antje Bjelde and Felix Fischer and Max Klimm", title = "Impartial Selection and the Power of Up to Two Choices", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "4", pages = "21:1--21:??", month = dec, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3107922", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Dec 22 18:33:00 MST 2017", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study mechanisms that select members of a set of agents based on nominations by other members and that are impartial in the sense that agents cannot influence their own chance of selection. Prior work has shown that deterministic mechanisms for selecting any fixed number k of agents are severely limited and cannot extract a constant fraction of the nominations of the k most highly nominated agents. We prove here that this impossibility result can be circumvented by allowing the mechanism to sometimes but not always select fewer than k agents. This added flexibility also improves the performance of randomized mechanisms, for which we show a separation between mechanisms that make exactly two or up to two choices and give upper and lower bounds for mechanisms allowed more than two choices.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "21", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Adamczyk:2017:SPP, author = "Marek Adamczyk and Allan Borodin and Diodato Ferraioli and Bart {De Keijzer} and Stefano Leonardi", title = "Sequential Posted-Price Mechanisms with Correlated Valuations", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "4", pages = "22:1--22:??", month = dec, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3157085", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Dec 22 18:33:00 MST 2017", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the revenue performance of sequential posted-price mechanisms and some natural extensions for a setting where the valuations of the buyers are drawn from a correlated distribution. Sequential posted-price mechanisms are conceptually simple mechanisms that work by proposing a ``take-it-or-leave-it'' offer to each buyer. We apply sequential posted-price mechanisms to single-parameter multiunit settings in which each buyer demands only one item and the mechanism can assign the service to at most k of the buyers. For standard sequential posted-price mechanisms, we prove that with the valuation distribution having finite support, no sequential posted-price mechanism can extract a constant fraction of the optimal expected revenue, even with unlimited supply. We extend this result to the case of a continuous valuation distribution when various standard assumptions hold simultaneously (i.e., everywhere-supported, continuous, symmetric, and normalized (conditional) distributions that satisfy regularity, the MHR condition, and affiliation ). In fact, it turns out that the best fraction of the optimal revenue that is extractable by a sequential posted-price mechanism is proportional to the ratio of the highest and lowest possible valuation. We prove that a simple generalization of these mechanisms achieves a better revenue performance; namely, if the sequential posted-price mechanism has for each buyer the option of either proposing an offer or asking the buyer for its valuation, then a \Omega (1/max { 1, d }) fraction of the optimal revenue can be extracted, where d denotes the degree of dependence of the valuations, ranging from complete independence ( d \&equal;0) to arbitrary dependence ( d = n -1).", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "22", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Bosansky:2017:CSE, author = "Branislav Bosansk{\'y} and Simina Br{\^a}nzei and Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen and Troels Bjerre Lund and Peter Bro Miltersen", title = "Computation of {Stackelberg} Equilibria of Finite Sequential Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "5", number = "4", pages = "23:1--23:??", month = dec, year = "2017", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3133242", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Dec 22 18:33:00 MST 2017", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "The Stackelberg equilibrium is a solution concept that describes optimal strategies to commit to: Player 1 (the leader) first commits to a strategy that is publicly announced, then Player 2 (the follower) plays a best response to the leader's choice. We study the problem of computing Stackelberg equilibria in finite sequential (i.e., extensive-form) games and provide new exact algorithms, approximation algorithms, and hardness results for finding equilibria for several classes of such two-player games.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "23", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Garg:2018:RCD, author = "Jugal Garg and Ruta Mehta and Vijay V. Vazirani and Sadra Yazdanbod", title = "$ \exists $ {R}-Completeness for Decision Versions of Multi-Player (Symmetric) {Nash} Equilibria", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:??", month = mar, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3175494", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:45 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "As a result of a series of important works [7--9, 15, 23], the complexity of two-player Nash equilibrium is by now well understood, even when equilibria with special properties are desired and when the game is symmetric. However, for multi-player games, when equilibria with special properties are desired, the only result known is due to Schaefer and Stefankovic [28]: that checking whether a three-player Nash Equilibrium (3-Nash) instance has an equilibrium in a ball of radius half in l$_\infty $-norm is $ \exists $ R-complete, where $ \exists $ R is the class of decision problems that can be reduced in polynomial time to Existential Theory of the Reals. Building on their work, we show that the following decision versions of 3-Nash are also $ \exists $ R-complete: checking whether (i) there are two or more equilibria, (ii) there exists an equilibrium in which each player gets at least h payoff, where h is a rational number, (iii) a given set of strategies are played with non-zero probability, and (iv) all the played strategies belong to a given set. Next, we give a reduction from 3-Nash to symmetric 3-Nash, hence resolving an open problem of Papadimitriou [25]. This yields $ \exists $ R-completeness for symmetric 3-Nash for the last two problems stated above as well as completeness for the class FIXP$_a$, a variant of FIXP for strong approximation. All our results extend to k -Nash for any constant k {$>$}= 3.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Candogan:2018:PEG, author = "Ozan Candogan and Asuman Ozdaglar and Pablo Parrilo", title = "Pricing Equilibria and Graphical Valuations", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:??", month = mar, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3175495", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:45 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study pricing equilibria for graphical valuations, which are a class of valuations that admit a compact representation. These valuations are associated with a value graph, whose nodes correspond to items, and edges encode (pairwise) complementarities/substitutabilities between items. It is known that for graphical valuations a Walrasian equilibrium (a pricing equilibrium that relies on anonymous item prices) does not exist in general. On the other hand, a pricing equilibrium exists when the seller uses an agent-specific graphical pricing rule that involves prices for each item and markups/discounts for pairs of items. We study the existence of pricing equilibria with simpler pricing rules which either (i) require anonymity (so that prices are identical for all agents) while allowing for pairwise markups/discounts or (ii) involve offering prices only for items. We show that a pricing equilibrium with the latter pricing rule exists if and only if a Walrasian equilibrium exists, whereas the former pricing rule may guarantee the existence of a pricing equilibrium even for graphical valuations that do not admit a Walrasian equilibrium. Interestingly, by exploiting a novel connection between the existence of a pricing equilibrium and the partitioning polytope associated with the underlying graph, we also establish that for simple (series-parallel) value graphs, a pricing equilibrium with anonymous graphical pricing rule exists if and only if a Walrasian equilibrium exists. These equivalence results imply that simpler pricing rules (i) and (ii) do not guarantee the existence of a pricing equilibrium for all graphical valuations.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Fujishige:2018:RAP, author = "Satoru Fujishige and Yoshio Sano and Ping Zhan", title = "The Random Assignment Problem with Submodular Constraints on Goods", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:??", month = mar, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3175496", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:45 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Problems of allocating indivisible goods to agents in an efficient and fair manner without money have long been investigated in literature. The random assignment problem is one of them, where we are given a fixed feasible (available) set of indivisible goods and a profile of ordinal preferences over the goods, one for each agent. Then, using lotteries, we determine an assignment of goods to agents in a randomized way. A seminal paper of Bogomolnaia and Moulin (2001) shows a probabilistic serial (PS) mechanism to give an ordinally efficient and envy-free solution to the assignment problem. In this article, we consider an extension of the random assignment problem to submodular constraints on goods. We show that the approach of the PS mechanism by Bogomolnaia and Moulin is powerful enough to solve the random assignment problem with submodular (matroidal and polymatroidal) constraints. Under the agents' ordinal preferences over goods we show the following: (1) The obtained PS solution for the problem with unit demands and matroidal constraints is ordinally efficient, envy-free, and weakly strategy-proof with respect to the associated stochastic dominance relation. (2)For the multiunit demand and polymatroidal constraint problem, the PS solution is ordinally efficient and envy-free but is not strategy-proof in general. However, we show that under a mild condition (that is likely to be satisfied in practice) the PS solution is a weak Nash equilibrium.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Harks:2018:CPR, author = "Tobias Harks and Britta Peis and Daniel Schmand and Bjoern Tauer and Laura Vargas Koch", title = "Competitive Packet Routing with Priority Lists", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = mar, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3184137", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:45 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In competitive packet routing games, the packets are routed selfishly through a network and scheduling policies at edges determine which packets are forwarded first if there is not enough capacity on an edge to forward all packets at once. We analyze the impact of priority lists on the worst-case quality of pure Nash equilibria. A priority list is an ordered list of players that may or may not depend on the edge. Whenever the number of packets entering an edge exceeds the inflow capacity, packets are processed in list order. We derive several new bounds on the price of anarchy and stability for global and local priority policies. We also consider the question of the complexity of computing an optimal priority list. It turns out that even for very restricted cases, i.e., for routing on a tree, the computation of an optimal priority list is APX-hard.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Dutting:2018:VCV, author = "Paul D{\"u}tting and Monika Henzinger and Martin Starnberger", title = "Valuation Compressions in {VCG}-Based Combinatorial Auctions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "2", pages = "5:1--5:??", month = oct, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3232860", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "The focus of classic mechanism design has been on truthful direct-revelation mechanisms. In the context of combinatorial auctions, the truthful direct-revelation mechanism that maximizes social welfare is the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism. For many valuation spaces, computing the allocation and payments of the VCG mechanism, however, is a computationally hard problem. We thus study the performance of the VCG mechanism when bidders are forced to choose bids from a subspace of the valuation space for which the VCG outcome can be computed efficiently. We prove improved upper bounds on the welfare loss for restrictions to additive bids and upper and lower bounds for restrictions to non-additive bids. These bounds show that increased expressiveness can give rise to additional equilibria of poorer efficiency.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Irfan:2018:CSI, author = "Mohammad T. Irfan and Luis E. Ortiz", title = "Causal Strategic Inference in a Game-Theoretic Model of Multiplayer Networked Microfinance Markets", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "2", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = oct, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3232861", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Performing interventions is a major challenge in economic policy-making. We present causal strategic inference as a framework for conducting interventions and apply it to large, networked microfinance economies. The basic solution platform consists of modeling a microfinance market as a networked economy, learning the model using single-sample real-world microfinance data, and designing algorithms for various causal questions. For a special case of our model, we show that an equilibrium point always exists and that the equilibrium interest rates are unique. For the general case, we give a constructive proof of the existence of an equilibrium point. Our empirical study is based on microfinance data from Bangladesh and Bolivia, which we use to first learn our models. We show that causal strategic inference can assist policy-makers by evaluating the outcomes of various types of interventions, such as removing a loss-making bank from the market, imposing an interest-rate cap, and subsidizing banks.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Ghosh:2018:CC, author = "Arpita Ghosh and Patrick Hummel", title = "Cardinal Contests", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "2", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = oct, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3232862", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We model and analyze cardinal contests, where a principal running a rank-order tournament has access to an absolute measure of the quality of agents' submissions in addition to their relative rankings. We show that a mechanism that compares each agent's output quality against a threshold to decide whether to award her the prize corresponding to her rank is optimal amongst the set of all mixed cardinal-ordinal mechanisms where the j th-ranked submission receives a fraction of the j th prize that is a non-decreasing function of the submission's quality. Furthermore, the optimal threshold mechanism uses exactly the same threshold for each rank.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Wang:2018:VPS, author = "Weina Wang and Lei Ying and Junshan Zhang", title = "The Value of Privacy: Strategic Data Subjects, Incentive Mechanisms, and Fundamental Limits", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "2", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = oct, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3232863", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the value of data privacy in a game-theoretic model of trading private data, where a data collector purchases private data from strategic data subjects (individuals) through an incentive mechanism. One primary goal of the data collector is to learn some desired information from the elicited data. Specifically, this information is modeled by an underlying state, and the private data of each individual represents his of her knowledge about the state. Departing from most of the existing work on privacy-aware surveys, our model does not assume the data collector to be trustworthy. Further, an individual takes full control of his or her own data privacy and reports only a privacy-preserving version of his or her data. In this article, the value of \epsilon units of privacy is measured by the minimum payment among all nonnegative payment mechanisms, under which an individual's best response at a Nash equilibrium is to report his or her data in an \epsilon -locally differentially private manner. The higher \epsilon is, the less private the reported data is. We derive lower and upper bounds on the value of privacy that are asymptotically tight as the number of data subjects becomes large. Specifically, the lower bound assures that it is impossible to use a lower payment to buy \epsilon units of privacy, and the upper bound is given by an achievable payment mechanism that we design. Based on these fundamental limits, we further derive lower and upper bounds on the minimum total payment for the data collector to achieve a given accuracy target for learning the underlying state and show that the total payment of the designed mechanism is at most one individual's payment away from the minimum.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Velez:2018:ERD, author = "Rodrigo A. Velez", title = "Equitable Rent Division", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = oct, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3274528", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "How should a group of roommates allocate the rooms and contributions to rent in the house they lease? Economists have provided partial answers to this question in a literature that spans the last 40 years. Unfortunately, these results were developed in a non-linear fashion, which obscures them to the non-specialist. Recently, computer scientists have developed an interest in this problem, advancing from an algorithmic complexity perspective. With this new interest gaining traction, there is an evident need for a coherent development of the results in economics literature. This article does so. In particular, we build connections among results that were seemingly unrelated and considerably simplify their development, fill in non-trivial gaps, and identify open questions. Our focus is on incentives issues, the area in which we believe economists have more to contribute in this discussion.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Feldman:2018:ISI, author = "Michal Feldman and Brendan Lucier and Michael Schwarz", title = "Introduction to the Special Issue on {EC'15}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3274531", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3274531", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Kurokawa:2018:LAR, author = "David Kurokawa and Ariel D. Procaccia and Nisarg Shah", title = "Leximin Allocations in the Real World", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "11:1--11:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3274641", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3274641", abstract = "As part of a collaboration with a major California school district, we study the problem of fairly allocating unused classrooms in public schools to charter schools. Our approach revolves around the randomized leximin mechanism. We extend previous work to show that the leximin mechanism is proportional, envy-free, Pareto optimal, and group strategyproof, not only in our classroom allocation setting, but in a general framework that subsumes a number of settings previously studied in the literature. We also prove that the leximin mechanism provides a (worst-case) 4-approximation to the maximum number of classrooms that can possibly be allocated. Our experiments, which are based on real data, show that a non-trivial implementation of the leximin mechanism scales gracefully in terms of running time (even though the problem is intractable in theory), and performs extremely well with respect to a number of efficiency objectives. We establish the practicability of our approach, and discuss issues related to its deployment.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Kannan:2018:PPO, author = "Sampath Kannan and Jamie Morgenstern and Ryan Rogers and Aaron Roth", title = "Private {Pareto} Optimal Exchange", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "12:1--12:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3105445", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3105445", abstract = "We consider the problem of implementing an individually rational, asymptotically Pareto optimal allocation in a barter-exchange economy where agents are endowed with goods and preferences over the goods of others, but may not use money as a medium of exchange. Because one of the most important instantiations of such economies is kidney exchange-where the ``input'' to the problem consists of sensitive patient medical records-we ask to what extent such exchanges can be carried out while providing formal privacy guarantees to the participants. We show that individually rational allocations cannot achieve any non-trivial approximation to Pareto optimality if carried out under the constraint of differential privacy-or even the relaxation of joint -differential privacy, under which it is known that asymptotically optimal allocations can be computed in two sided markets (Hsu et al. STOC 2014). We therefore consider a further relaxation that we call marginal -differential privacy-which promises, informally, that the privacy of every agent i is protected from every other agent j /= i so long as j does not collude or share allocation information with other agents. We show that under marginal differential privacy, it is possible to compute an individually rational and asymptotically Pareto optimal allocation in such exchange economies.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Blum:2018:LWG, author = "Avrim Blum and Yishay Mansour and Jamie Morgenstern", title = "Learning What's Going on: Reconstructing Preferences and Priorities from Opaque Transactions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "13:1--13:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3274642", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3274642", abstract = "We consider a setting where n buyers, with combinatorial preferences over m items, and a seller, running a priority-based allocation mechanism, repeatedly interact. Our goal, from observing limited information about the results of these interactions, is to reconstruct both the preferences of the buyers and the mechanism of the seller. More specifically, we consider an online setting where at each stage, a subset of the buyers arrive and are allocated items, according to some unknown priority that the seller has among the buyers. Our learning algorithm observes only which buyers arrive and the allocation produced (or some function of the allocation, such as just which buyers received positive utility and which did not), and its goal is to predict the outcome for future subsets of buyers. For this task, the learning algorithm needs to reconstruct both the priority among the buyers and the preferences of each buyer. We derive mistake bound algorithms for additive, unit-demand and single-minded buyers. We also consider the case where buyers' utilities for a fixed bundle can change between stages due to different (observed) prices. Our algorithms are efficient both in computation time and in the maximum number of mistakes (both polynomial in the number of buyers and items).", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Esfandiari:2018:ATS, author = "Hossein Esfandiari and Nitish Korula and Vahab Mirrokni", title = "Allocation with Traffic Spikes: Mixing Adversarial and Stochastic Models", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "14:1--14:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3105446", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3105446", abstract = "Motivated by Internet advertising applications, online allocation problems have been studied extensively in various adversarial and stochastic models. While the adversarial arrival models are too pessimistic, many of the stochastic (such as i.i.d. or random-order) arrival models do not realistically capture uncertainty in predictions. A significant cause for such uncertainty is the presence of unpredictable traffic spikes, often due to breaking news or similar events. To address this issue, a simultaneous approximation framework has been proposed to develop algorithms that work well both in the adversarial and stochastic models; however, this framework does not enable algorithms that make good use of partially accurate forecasts when making online decisions. In this article, we propose a robust online stochastic model that captures the nature of traffic spikes in online advertising. In our model, in addition to the stochastic input for which we have good forecasting, an unknown number of impressions arrive that are adversarially chosen. We design algorithms that combine a stochastic algorithm with an online algorithm that adaptively reacts to inaccurate predictions. We provide provable bounds for our new algorithms in this framework. We accompany our positive results with a set of hardness results showing that our algorithms are not far from optimal in this framework. As a byproduct of our results, we also present improved online algorithms for a slight variant of the simultaneous approximation framework.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Heidari:2018:IMM, author = "Hoda Heidari and S{\'e}bastien Lahaie and David M. Pennock and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan", title = "Integrating Market Makers, Limit Orders, and Continuous Trade in Prediction Markets", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "15:1--15:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3274643", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3274643", abstract = "We provide the first concrete algorithm for combining market makers and limit orders in a prediction market with continuous trade. Our mechanism is general enough to handle both bundle orders and arbitrary securities defined over combinatorial outcome spaces. We define the notion of an \epsilon -fair trading path, a path in security space along which no order executes at a price more than \epsilon above its limit, and every order executes when its market price falls more than \epsilon below its limit. We show that, under a certain supermodularity condition, a fair trading path exists for which the endpoint is efficient, but that under general conditions reaching an efficient endpoint via an \epsilon -fair trading path is not possible. We develop an algorithm for operating a continuous market maker with limit orders that respects the \epsilon -fairness conditions in the general case. We conduct simulations of our algorithm using real combinatorial predictions made during the 2008 US presidential election and evaluate it against a natural baseline according to trading volume, social welfare, and violations of the two fairness conditions.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Naor:2018:NOO, author = "Joseph (Seffi) Naor and David Wajc", title = "Near-Optimum Online Ad Allocation for Targeted Advertising", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "16:1--16:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3105447", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3105447", abstract = "Motivated by Internet targeted advertising, we address several ad allocation problems. Prior work has established that these problems admit no randomized online algorithm better than (1 --- 1/ e)-competitive (see Karp et al. (1990) and Mehta et al. (2007)), yet simple heuristics have been observed to perform much better in practice. We explain this phenomenon by studying a generalization of the bounded-degree inputs considered by Buchbinder et al. (2007), graphs which we call (k, d)- bounded. In such graphs the maximal degree on the online side is at most d and the minimal degree on the offline side is at least k. We prove that, for such graphs, these problems' natural greedy algorithms attain a competitive ratio of 1 --- d -1/ k + d -1, tending to 1 as d / k tends to zero. We prove this bound is tight for these algorithms. Next, we develop deterministic primal-dual algorithms for the above problems, achieving a competitive ratio of 1-(1 --- 1/ d)$^k$ \> 1 --- \& 1/ e$^{k / d}$, or exponentially better loss as a function of k / /d, and strictly better than 1 --- 1/e whenever k {$>$}= d. We complement our lower bounds with matching upper bounds for the vertex-weighted problem. Finally, we use our deterministic algorithms to prove by dual-fitting that simple randomized algorithms achieve the same bounds in expectation. Our algorithms and analysis differ from previous ad allocation algorithms, which largely scale bids based on the spent fraction of their bidder's budget, whereas we scale bids according to the number of times the bidder could have spent as much as her current bid. Our algorithms differ from previous online primal-dual algorithms in that they do not maintain dual feasibility but only a primal-to-dual ratio and only attain dual feasibility upon termination. We believe our techniques could find applications to other well-behaved online packing problems.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Kleinberg:2018:TPT, author = "Jon Kleinberg and Maithra Raghu", title = "Team Performance with Test Scores", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "17:1--17:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3274644", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3274644", abstract = "Team performance is a ubiquitous area of inquiry in the social sciences, and it motivates the problem of team selection -choosing the members of a team for maximum performance. Influential work of Hong and Page has argued that testing individuals in isolation and then assembling the highest scoring ones into a team is not an effective method for team selection. For a broad class of performance measures, based on the expected maximum of random variables representing individual candidates, we show that tests directly measuring individual performance are indeed ineffective, but that a more subtle family of tests used in isolation can provide a constant-factor approximation for team performance. These new tests measure the ``potential'' of individuals, in a precise sense, rather than performance; to our knowledge they represent the first time that individual tests have been shown to produce near-optimal teams for a nontrivial team performance measure. We also show families of subdmodular and supermodular team performance functions for which no test applied to individuals can produce near-optimal teams, and we discuss implications for submodular maximization via hill-climbing.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "17", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Gopalan:2018:PPB, author = "Parikshit Gopalan and Noam Nisan and Tim Roughgarden", title = "Public Projects, {Boolean} Functions, and the Borders of {Border}'s Theorem", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "18:1--18:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3274645", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3274645", abstract = "Border's theorem gives an intuitive linear characterization of the feasible interim allocation rules of a Bayesian single-item environment, and it has several applications in economic and algorithmic mechanism design. All known generalizations of Border's theorem either restrict attention to relatively simple settings or resort to approximation. This article identifies a complexity-theoretic barrier that indicates, assuming standard complexity class separations, that Border's theorem cannot be extended significantly beyond the state of the art. We also identify a surprisingly tight connection between Myerson's optimal auction theory, when applied to public project settings, and some fundamental results in the analysis of Boolean functions.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "18", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Rubinstein:2018:SMS, author = "Aviad Rubinstein and S. Matthew Weinberg", title = "Simple Mechanisms for a Subadditive Buyer and Applications to Revenue Monotonicity", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "19:1--19:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3105448", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3105448", abstract = "We study the revenue maximization problem of a seller with n heterogeneous items for sale to a single buyer whose valuation function for sets of items is unknown and drawn from some distribution D. We show that if D is a distribution over subadditive valuations with independent items, then the better of pricing each item separately or pricing only the grand bundle achieves a constant-factor approximation to the revenue of the optimal mechanism. This includes buyers who are k -demand, additive up to a matroid constraint, or additive up to constraints of any downward-closed set system (and whose values for the individual items are sampled independently), as well as buyers who are fractionally subadditive with item multipliers drawn independently. Our proof makes use of the core-tail decomposition framework developed in prior work showing similar results for the significantly simpler class of additive buyers. In the second part of the article, we develop a connection between approximately optimal simple mechanisms and approximate revenue monotonicity with respect to buyers' valuations. Revenue non-monotonicity is the phenomenon that sometimes strictly increasing buyers' values for every set can strictly decrease the revenue of the optimal mechanism. Using our main result, we derive a bound on how bad this degradation can be (and dub such a bound a proof of approximate revenue monotonicity); we further show that better bounds on approximate monotonicity imply a better analysis of our simple mechanisms.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "19", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Daskalakis:2018:RME, author = "Constantinos Daskalakis and Nikhil R. Devanur and S. Matthew Weinberg", title = "Revenue Maximization and Ex-Post Budget Constraints", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "20:1--20:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3274647", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3274647", abstract = "We consider the problem of a revenue-maximizing seller with m items for sale to n additive bidders with hard budget constraints, assuming that the seller has some prior distribution over bidder values and budgets. The prior may be correlated across items and budgets of the same bidder, but is assumed independent across bidders. We target mechanisms that are Bayesian incentive compatible, but that are ex-post individually rational and ex-post budget respecting. Virtually no such mechanisms are known that satisfy all these conditions and guarantee any revenue approximation, even with just a single item. We provide a computationally efficient mechanism that is a 3-approximation with respect to all BIC, ex-post IR, and ex-post budget respecting mechanisms. Note that the problem is NP-hard to approximate better than a factor of 16/15, even in the case where the prior is a point mass. We further characterize the optimal mechanism in this setting, showing that it can be interpreted as a distribution over virtual welfare maximizers. We prove our results by making use of a black-box reduction from mechanism to algorithm design developed by Cai et al. Our main technical contribution is a computationally efficient 3-approximation algorithm for the algorithmic problem that results from an application of their framework to this problem. The algorithmic problem has a mixed-sign objective and is NP-hard to optimize exactly, so it is surprising that a computationally efficient approximation is possible at all. In the case of a single item (m =1), the algorithmic problem can be solved exactly via exhaustive search, leading to a computationally efficient exact algorithm and a stronger characterization of the optimal mechanism as a distribution over virtual value maximizers.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "20", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Bronfman:2018:RIM, author = "Slava Bronfman and Noga Alon and Avinatan Hassidim and Assaf Romm", title = "Redesigning the {Israeli} Medical Internship Match", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "6", number = "3--4", pages = "21:1--21:??", month = nov, year = "2018", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3274646", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3274646", abstract = "The final step in getting an Israeli MD is performing a year-long internship in one of the hospitals in Israel. Internships are decided upon by a lottery, which is known as the Internship Lottery. In 2014, we redesigned the lottery, replacing it with a more efficient one. This article presents the market, the redesign process, and the new mechanism that is now in use. In this article, we describe the redesign and focus on two-body problems that we faced in the new mechanism. Specifically, we show that decomposing stochastic assignment matrices to deterministic allocations is NP-hard in the presence of couples, and present a polynomial-time algorithm with the optimal worst case guarantee. We also study the performance of our algorithm on real-world and simulated data.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "21", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Kirousis:2019:AVM, author = "Lefteris Kirousis and Phokion G. Kolaitis and John Livieratos", title = "Aggregation of Votes with Multiple Positions on Each Issue", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:??", month = feb, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3296675", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3296675", abstract = "We consider the problem of aggregating votes cast by a society on a fixed set of issues, where each member of the society may vote for one of several positions on each issue, but the combination of votes on the various issues is restricted to a set of feasible voting patterns. We follow the aggregation framework used by Dokow and Holzman [Aggregation of non-binary evaluations, Advances in Applied Mathematics, 45:4, 487--504, 2010], in which both preference aggregation and judgment aggregation can be cast. We require the aggregation to be independent on each issue, and also supportive, i.e., for every issue, the corresponding component of every aggregator, when applied to a tuple of votes, must take as value one of the votes in that tuple. We prove that, in such a setup, non-dictatorial aggregation of votes in a society of an arbitrary size is possible if and only if either there is a non-dictatorial aggregator for two voters or there is an aggregator for three voters such that, for each issue, the corresponding component of the aggregator, when restricted to two-element sets of votes, is a majority operation or a minority operation. We then introduce a notion of a uniform non-dictatorial aggregator, which is an aggregator such that on every issue, and when restricted to arbitrary two-element subsets of the votes for that issue, it differs from all projection functions. We first give a characterization of sets of feasible voting patterns that admit a uniform non-dictatorial aggregator. After this and by making use of Bulatov's dichotomy theorem for conservative constraint satisfaction problems, we connect social choice theory with the computational complexity of constraint satisfaction by proving that if a set of feasible voting patterns has a uniform non-dictatorial aggregator of some arity, then the multi-sorted conservative constraint satisfaction problem on that set (with each issue representing a different sort) is solvable in polynomial time; otherwise, it is NP-complete.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Kong:2019:ITF, author = "Yuqing Kong and Grant Schoenebeck", title = "An Information Theoretic Framework For Designing Information Elicitation Mechanisms That Reward Truth-telling", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:??", month = feb, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3296670", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3296670", abstract = "In the setting where information cannot be verified, we propose a simple yet powerful information theoretical framework-the Mutual Information Paradigm-for information elicitation mechanisms. Our framework pays every agent a measure of mutual information between her signal and a peer's signal. We require that the mutual information measurement has the key property that any ``data processing'' on the two random variables will decrease the mutual information between them. We identify such information measures that generalize Shannon mutual information. Our Mutual Information Paradigm overcomes the two main challenges in information elicitation without verification: (1) how to incentivize high-quality reports and avoid agents colluding to report random or identical responses; (2) how to motivate agents who believe they are in the minority to report truthfully. Aided by the information measures, we found (1) we use the paradigm to design a family of novel mechanisms where truth-telling is a dominant strategy and pays better than any other strategy profile (in the multi-question, detail free, minimal setting where the number of questions is large); (2) we show the versatility of our framework by providing a unified theoretical understanding of existing mechanisms-Bayesian Truth Serum Prelec (2004) and Dasgupta and Ghosh (2013)-by mapping them into our framework such that theoretical results of those existing mechanisms can be reconstructed easily. We also give an impossibility result that illustrates, in a certain sense, the the optimality of our framework.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Faliszewski:2019:CSR, author = "Piotr Faliszewski and Piotr Skowron and Arkadii Slinko and Nimrod Talmon", title = "Committee Scoring Rules: Axiomatic Characterization and Hierarchy", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:??", month = feb, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3296672", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3296672", abstract = "Committee scoring voting rules are multiwinner analogues of positional scoring rules, which constitute an important subclass of single-winner voting rules. We identify several natural subclasses of committee scoring rules, namely, weakly separable, representation-focused, top- k -counting, OWA-based, and decomposable rules. We characterize SNTV, Bloc, and k -Approval Chamberlin--Courant as the only nontrivial rules in pairwise intersections of these classes. We provide some axiomatic characterizations for these classes, where monotonicity properties appear to be especially useful. The class of decomposable rules is new to the literature. We show that it strictly contains the class of OWA-based rules and describe some of the applications of decomposable rules.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Abraham:2019:DPL, author = "Ittai Abraham and Danny Dolev and Joseph Y. Halpern", title = "Distributed Protocols for Leader Election: a Game-Theoretic Perspective", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = feb, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3303712", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:46 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/cryptography2010.bib; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3303712", abstract = "We do a game-theoretic analysis of leader election, under the assumption that each agent prefers to have some leader than no leader at all. We show that it is possible to obtain a fair Nash equilibrium, where each agent has an equal probability of being elected leader, in a completely connected network, in a bidirectional ring, and a unidirectional ring, in the synchronous setting. In the asynchronous setting, Nash equilibrium is not quite the right solution concept. Rather, we must consider ex post Nash equilibrium; this means that we have a Nash equilibrium no matter what a scheduling adversary does. We show that ex post Nash equilibrium is attainable in the asynchronous setting in all the networks we consider, using a protocol with bounded running time. However, in the asynchronous setting, we require that n \> 2. We show that we can get a fair ex post \epsilon -Nash equilibrium if n =2 in the asynchronous setting under some cryptographic assumptions (specifically, the existence of a one-way functions), using a commitment protocol. We then generalize these results to a setting where we can have deviations by a coalition of size k. In this case, we can get what we call a fair k -resilient equilibrium in a completely connected network if n \> 2 k; under the same cryptographic assumptions, we can a get a k -resilient equilibrium in a completely connected network, unidirectional ring, or bidirectional ring if n \> k. Finally, we show that under minimal assumptions, not only do our protocols give a Nash equilibrium, they also give a sequential equilibrium, so players even play optimally off the equilibrium path.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Hummel:2019:BLT, author = "Patrick Hummel and Uri Nadav", title = "Bid-Limited Targeting", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "2", pages = "5:1--5:??", month = aug, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3327968", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3327968", abstract = "This article analyzes a mechanism for selling items in auctions in which the auctioneer specifies a cap on the ratio between the maximum and minimum bids that bidders may use in the auctions. Such a mechanism is widely used in online advertising through the caps that companies impose on the minimum and maximum bid multipliers that advertisers may use in targeting. When bidders' values are independent and identically distributed, this mechanism results in greater revenue than allowing bidders to condition their bids on the targeting information in an arbitrary way and also almost always results in greater revenue than not allowing bidders to target. Choosing the optimal cap on the ratio between the maximum and minimum bids can also be more important than introducing additional competition in the auction. However, if bidders' values are not identically distributed, pure-strategy equilibria may fail to exist.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Aziz:2019:FHG, author = "Haris Aziz and Florian Brandl and Felix Brandt and Paul Harrenstein and Martin Olsen and Dominik Peters", title = "Fractional Hedonic Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "2", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = aug, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3327970", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3327970", abstract = "The work we present in this article initiated the formal study of fractional hedonic games (FHGs), coalition formation games in which the utility of a player is the average value he ascribes to the members of his coalition. Among other settings, this covers situations in which players only distinguish between friends and non-friends and desire to be in a coalition in which the fraction of friends is maximal. FHGs thus not only constitute a natural class of succinctly representable coalition formation games but also provide an interesting framework for network clustering. We propose a number of conditions under which the core of FHGs is non-empty and provide algorithms for computing a core stable outcome. By contrast, we show that the core may be empty in other cases, and that it is computationally hard in general to decide non-emptiness of the core.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Kash:2019:SPS, author = "Ian A. Kash and Peter Key and Warut Suksompong", title = "Simple Pricing Schemes for the Cloud", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "2", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = aug, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3327973", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3327973", abstract = "The problem of pricing the cloud has attracted much recent attention due to the widespread use of cloud computing and cloud services. From a theoretical perspective, several mechanisms that provide strong efficiency or fairness guarantees and desirable incentive properties have been designed. However, these mechanisms often rely on a rigid model, with several parameters needing to be precisely known for the guarantees to hold. In this article, we consider a stochastic model and show that it is possible to obtain good welfare and revenue guarantees with simple mechanisms that do not make use of the information on some of these parameters. In particular, we prove that a mechanism that sets the same price per timestep for jobs of any length achieves at least 50\% of the welfare and revenue obtained by a mechanism that can set different prices for jobs of different lengths, and the ratio can be improved if we have more specific knowledge of some parameters. Similarly, a mechanism that sets the same price for all servers even though the servers may receive different kinds of jobs can provide a reasonable welfare and revenue approximation compared to a mechanism that is allowed to set different prices for different servers.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Goel:2019:KVP, author = "Ashish Goel and Anilesh K. Krishnaswamy and Sukolsak Sakshuwong and Tanja Aitamurto", title = "Knapsack Voting for Participatory Budgeting", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "2", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = aug, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3340230", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3340230", abstract = "We address the question of aggregating the preferences of voters in the context of participatory budgeting. We scrutinize the voting method currently used in practice, underline its drawbacks, and introduce a novel scheme tailored to this setting, which we call ``Knapsack Voting.'' We study its strategic properties-we show that it is strategy-proof under a natural model of utility (a dis-utility given by the l$_1$ distance between the outcome and the true preference of the voter) and ``partially'' strategy-proof under general additive utilities. We extend Knapsack Voting to more general settings with revenues, deficits, or surpluses and prove a similar strategy-proofness result. To further demonstrate the applicability of our scheme, we discuss its implementation on the digital voting platform that we have deployed in partnership with the local government bodies in many cities across the nation. From voting data thus collected, we present empirical evidence that Knapsack Voting works well in practice.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Halpern:2019:SEC, author = "Joseph Y. Halpern and Rafael Pass", title = "Sequential Equilibrium in Computational Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = aug, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3340232", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3340232", abstract = "We examine sequential equilibrium in the context of computational games (Halpern and Pass 2015), where agents are charged for computation. In such games, an agent can rationally choose to forget, so issues of imperfect recall arise. In this setting, we consider two notions of sequential equilibrium. One is an ex ante notion, where a player chooses his strategy before the game starts and is committed to it, but chooses it in such a way that it remains optimal even off the equilibrium path. The second is an interim notion, where a player can reconsider at each information set whether he is doing the ``right'' thing, and if not, can change his strategy. The two notions agree in games of perfect recall, but not in games of imperfect recall. Although the interim notion seems more appealing, in a companion article (Halpern and Pass 2016), we argue that there are some deep conceptual problems with it in standard games of imperfect recall. We show that the conceptual problems largely disappear in the computational setting. Moreover, in this setting, under natural assumptions, the two notions coincide.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Bei:2019:EUL, author = "Xiaohui Bei and Jugal Garg and Martin Hoefer and Kurt Mehlhorn", title = "Earning and Utility Limits in {Fisher} Markets", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "2", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = aug, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3340234", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3340234", abstract = "Earning limits and utility limits are novel aspects in the classic Fisher market model. Sellers with earning limits have bounds on their income and lower the supply they bring to the market if income exceeds the limit. Buyers with utility limits have an upper bound on the amount of utility that they want to derive and lower the budget they bring to the market if utility exceeds the limit. Markets with these properties can have multiple equilibria with different characteristics. We analyze earning limits and utility limits in markets with linear and spending-constraint utilities. For markets with earning limits and spending-constraint utilities, we show that equilibrium price vectors form a lattice and the spending of buyers is unique in non-degenerate markets. We provide a scaling-based algorithm to compute an equilibrium in time O (n$^3$ l log (l + nU)), where n is the number of agents, l {$>$}= n a bound on the segments in the utility functions, and U the largest integer in the market representation. We show how to refine any equilibrium in polynomial time to one with minimal prices or one with maximal prices (if it exists). Moreover, our algorithm can be used to obtain in polynomial time a 2-approximation for maximizing Nash social welfare in multi-unit markets with indivisible items that come in multiple copies. For markets with utility limits and linear utilities, we show similar results-lattice structure of price vectors, uniqueness of allocation in non-degenerate markets, and polynomial-time refinement procedures to obtain equilibria with minimal and maximal prices. We complement these positive results with hardness results for related computational questions. We prove that it is NP-hard to compute a market equilibrium that maximizes social welfare, and it is PPAD-hard to find any market equilibrium with utility functions with separate satiation points for each buyer and each good.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Chen:2019:ISI, author = "Yiling Chen and Dirk Bergemann", title = "Introduction to the Special Issue on {EC'16}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "3", pages = "11:1--11:??", month = oct, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3357235", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3357235", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Caragiannis:2019:UFM, author = "Ioannis Caragiannis and David Kurokawa and Herv{\'e} Moulin and Ariel D. Procaccia and Nisarg Shah and Junxing Wang", title = "The Unreasonable Fairness of Maximum {Nash} Welfare", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "3", pages = "12:1--12:??", month = oct, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3355902", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3355902", abstract = "The maximum Nash welfare (MNW) solution-which selects an allocation that maximizes the product of utilities-is known to provide outstanding fairness guarantees when allocating divisible goods. And while it seems to lose its luster when applied to indivisible goods, we show that, in fact, the MNW solution is strikingly fair even in that setting. In particular, we prove that it selects allocations that are envy-free up to one good-a compelling notion that is quite elusive when coupled with economic efficiency. We also establish that the MNW solution provides a good approximation to another popular (yet possibly infeasible) fairness property, the maximin share guarantee, in theory and-even more so-in practice. While finding the MNW solution is computationally hard, we develop a nontrivial implementation and demonstrate that it scales well on real data. These results establish MNW as a compelling solution for allocating indivisible goods and underlie its deployment on a popular fair-division website.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Epstein:2019:GBU, author = "Ziv Epstein and Alexander Peysakhovich and David Rand", title = "The Good, the Bad, and the Unflinchingly Selfish: Pro-sociality can be Well Predicted Using Payoffs and Three Behavioral Types", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "3", pages = "13:1--13:??", month = oct, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3355947", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3355947", abstract = "The human willingness to pay costs to benefit anonymous others is often explained by social preferences: rather than only valuing their own material payoff, people also include the payoffs of others in their utility function. But how successful is this concept of outcome-based social preferences for actually predicting out-of-sample behavior? We investigate this question by having 1,067 participants each make 20 Dictator Game decisions with randomized parameters (e.g., outcomes for the self, for the other, benefit/cost ratio of pro-sociality). We then use machine learning to try to predict behavior by each participant in each decision. A representative agent model (a small, shared, set of parameters) predicts better than random but still quite poorly (AUC = 0.69). Allowing for full heterogeneity across individuals in the mapping from decision-parameters to outcome yields good predictive performance (AUC = 0.89). However, this heterogeneous model is complicated and unwieldy, thus we also investigate whether a simpler model can yield similar performance. We find that the vast majority of the predictive power (AUC = 0.88) is achieved by a model that allows for three behavioral types. Finally, we show that cannot be well proxied for by other measures in psychology. This final analysis adds further evidence to the literature that human ``cooperative phenotypes'' are indeed meaningful, relatively orthogonal person-level traits.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Alon:2019:DES, author = "Noga Alon and Michal Feldman and Yishay Mansour and Sigal Oren and Moshe Tennenholtz", title = "Dynamics of Evolving Social Groups", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "3", pages = "14:1--14:??", month = oct, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3355948", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3355948", abstract = "Exclusive social groups are ones in which the group members decide whether or not to admit a candidate to the group. Examples of exclusive social groups include academic departments and fraternal organizations. In this article, we introduce an analytic framework for studying the dynamics of exclusive social groups. In our model, every group member is characterized by his opinion, which is represented as a point on the real line. The group evolves in discrete time steps through a voting process carried out by the group's members. Due to homophily, each member votes for the candidate who is more similar to him (i.e., closer to him on the line). An admission rule is then applied to determine which candidate, if any, is admitted. We consider several natural admission rules including majority and consensus. We ask: How do different admission rules affect the composition of the group in the long run? We study both growing groups (where new members join old ones) and fixed-size groups (where new members replace those who quit). Our analysis reveals intriguing phenomena and phase transitions, some of which are quite counterintuitive.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Bilo:2019:DTP, author = "Vittorio Bil{\`o} and Cosimo Vinci", title = "Dynamic Taxes for Polynomial Congestion Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "3", pages = "15:1--15:??", month = oct, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3355946", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3355946", abstract = "We consider the efficiency of taxation in congestion games with polynomial latency functions along the line of research initiated by Caragiannis et al. [ ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 2010], who focused on both pure and mixed Nash equilibria in games with affine latencies only. By exploiting the primal-dual method [Bil{\`o}, Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, 2012], we obtain interesting upper bounds with respect to a variety of different solution concepts ranging from approximate pure Nash equilibria up to approximate coarse correlated equilibria, and including also approximate one-round walks starting from the empty state. Our findings show a high beneficial effect of taxation that increases more than linearly with the degree of the latency functions. In some cases, a tight relationship with some well-studied polynomials in Combinatorics and Number Theory, such as the Touchard and the Geometric polynomials, arises. In these cases, we can also show matching lower bounds, albeit under mild assumptions; interestingly, our upper bounds are derived by exploiting the combinatorial definition of these polynomials, while our lower bounds are constructed by relying on their analytical characterization.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Assadi:2019:SMP, author = "Sepehr Assadi and Sanjeev Khanna and Yang Li", title = "The Stochastic Matching Problem with (Very) Few Queries", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "3", pages = "16:1--16:??", month = oct, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3355903", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3355903", abstract = "Motivated by an application in kidney exchange, we study the following stochastic matching problem: We are given a graph G (V, E) (not necessarily bipartite), where each edge in E is realized with some constant probability p \> 0, and the goal is to find a maximum matching in the realized graph. An algorithm in this setting is allowed to make queries to edges in E to determine whether or not they are realized. We design an adaptive algorithm for this problem that, for any graph G, computes a (1- \epsilon)-approximate maximum matching in the realized graph G$_p$ with high probability, while making O (log (1/ \epsilon p)/ \epsilon p) queries per vertex, where the edges to query are chosen adaptively in O (log (1/ \epsilon p)/ \epsilon p) rounds. We further present a non-adaptive algorithm that makes O (log (1/ \epsilon p)/ \epsilon p) queries per vertex and computes a (1/2- \epsilon)-approximate maximum matching in G$_p$ with high probability. Both our adaptive and non-adaptive algorithms achieve the same approximation factor as the previous best algorithms of Blum et al. (EC 2015) for this problem, while requiring an exponentially smaller number of per-vertex queries (and rounds of adaptive queries for the adaptive algorithm). Our results settle an open problem raised by Blum et al. by achieving only a polynomial dependency on both \epsilon and p. Moreover, the approximation guarantee of our algorithms is instance-wise as opposed to only being competitive in expectation as is the case for Blum et al. This is of particular relevance to the key application of stochastic matching in kidney exchange. We obtain our results via two main techniques-namely, matching-covers and vertex sparsification -that may be of independent interest.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Roughgarden:2019:MRM, author = "Tim Roughgarden and Joshua R. Wang", title = "Minimizing Regret with Multiple Reserves", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "3", pages = "17:1--17:??", month = oct, year = "2019", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3355900", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 19 12:38:47 MDT 2019", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3355900", abstract = "We study the problem of computing and learning non-anonymous reserve prices to maximize revenue. We first define the Maximizing Multiple Reserves (MMR) problem in single-parameter matroid environments, where the input is m valuation profiles v$^1$, \ldots, v$^m$, indexed by the same n bidders, and the goal is to compute the vector r of (non-anonymous) reserve prices that maximizes the total revenue obtained on these profiles by the VCG mechanism with reserves r. We prove that the problem is APX-hard, even in the special case of single-item environments, and give a polynomial-time 1/2-approximation algorithm for it in arbitrary matroid environments. We then consider the online no-regret learning problem and show how to exploit the special structure of the MMR problem to translate our offline approximation algorithm into an online learning algorithm that achieves asymptotically time-averaged revenue at least 1/2 times that of the best fixed reserve prices in hindsight. On the negative side, we show that, quite generally, computational hardness for the offline optimization problem translates to computational hardness for obtaining vanishing time-averaged regret. Thus, our hardness result for the MMR problem implies that computationally efficient online learning requires approximation, even in the special case of single-item auction environments.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "17", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2542174", } @Article{Hart:2020:BHS, author = "Sergiu Hart and Philip J. Reny", title = "The Better Half of Selling Separately", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "4", pages = "18:1--18:18", month = feb, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3369927", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Feb 3 08:53:37 MST 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3369927", abstract = "Separate selling of two independent goods is shown to yield at least 62\% of the optimal revenue, and at least 73\% when the goods satisfy the Myerson regularity condition. This improves the 50\% result of Hart and Nisan [2017], originally circulated in \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "18", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Ahuja:2020:DMA, author = "Kartik Ahuja and Mihaela {Van der Schaar}", title = "Dynamic Matching and Allocation of Tasks", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "4", pages = "19:1--19:27", month = feb, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3369925", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Feb 3 08:53:37 MST 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3369925", abstract = "In many two-sided markets, the parties to be matched have incomplete information about their characteristics. We consider the settings where the parties engaged are extremely patient and are interested in long-term partnerships. Hence, once the final \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "19", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Ezra:2020:PMU, author = "Tomer Ezra and Michal Feldman and Tim Roughgarden and Warut Suksompong", title = "Pricing Multi-Unit Markets", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "4", pages = "20:1--20:29", month = feb, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3373715", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Feb 3 08:53:37 MST 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3373715", abstract = "We study the power and limitations of posted prices in multi-unit markets, where agents arrive sequentially in an arbitrary order. We prove upper and lower bounds on the largest fraction of the optimal social welfare that can be guaranteed with posted \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "20", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Kawase:2020:SPE, author = "Yasushi Kawase and Yutaro Yamaguchi and Yu Yokoi", title = "Subgame Perfect Equilibria of Sequential Matching Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "7", number = "4", pages = "21:1--21:30", month = feb, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3373717", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Feb 3 08:53:37 MST 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3373717", abstract = "We study a decentralized matching market in which firms sequentially make offers to potential workers. For each offer, the worker can choose ``accept'' or ``reject,'' but the decision is irrevocable. The acceptance of an offer guarantees her job at the firm,. \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "21", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Anonymous:2020:ISI, author = "Anonymous", title = "Introduction to the Special Issue on {EC'17}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:1", month = apr, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3383321", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Apr 22 09:10:06 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3383321", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Agarwal:2020:PPH, author = "Arpit Agarwal and Debmalya Mandal and David C. Parkes and Nisarg Shah", title = "Peer Prediction with Heterogeneous Users", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:34", month = apr, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3381519", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Apr 22 09:10:06 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3381519", abstract = "Peer prediction mechanisms incentivize agents to truthfully report their signals, in the absence of a verification mechanism, by comparing their reports with those of their peers. Prior work in this area is essentially restricted to the case of \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Assadi:2020:CAD, author = "Sepehr Assadi", title = "Combinatorial Auctions Do Need Modest Interaction", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:23", month = apr, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3381521", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Apr 22 09:10:06 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3381521", abstract = "We study the necessity of interaction for obtaining efficient allocations in combinatorial auctions with subadditive bidders. This problem was originally introduced by Dobzinski, Nisan, and Oren (STOC'14) as the following simple market scenario: m items \ldots", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Colini-Baldeschi:2020:AET, author = "Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi and Paul W. Goldberg and Bart de Keijzer and Stefano Leonardi and Tim Roughgarden and Stefano Turchetta", title = "Approximately Efficient Two-Sided Combinatorial Auctions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:29", month = apr, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3381523", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Apr 22 09:10:06 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3381523", abstract = "We develop and extend a line of recent work on the design of mechanisms for two-sided markets. The markets we consider consist of buyers and sellers of a number of items, and the aim of a mechanism is to improve the social welfare by arranging purchases \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Barman:2020:AAM, author = "Siddharth Barman and Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy", title = "Approximation Algorithms for Maximin Fair Division", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "1", pages = "5:1--5:28", month = apr, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3381525", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Apr 22 09:10:06 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3381525", abstract = "We consider the problem of allocating indivisible goods fairly among n agents who have additive and submodular valuations for the goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of the maximin share, which is defined to be the maximum value that an agent \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Roth:2020:MDP, author = "Aaron Roth and Aleksandrs Slivkins and Jonathan Ullman and Zhiwei Steven Wu", title = "Multidimensional Dynamic Pricing for Welfare Maximization", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "1", pages = "6:1--6:35", month = apr, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3381527", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Apr 22 09:10:06 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3381527", abstract = "We study the problem of a seller dynamically pricing d distinct types of indivisible goods, when faced with the online arrival of unit-demand buyers drawn independently from an unknown distribution. The goods are not in limited supply, but can only be \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Feldman:2020:DSG, author = "Moran Feldman and Moshe Tennenholtz and Omri Weinstein", title = "Distributed Signaling Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "2", pages = "7:1--7:26", month = may, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3381529", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue May 19 09:17:46 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3381529", abstract = "A recurring theme in recent computer science literature is that proper design of signaling schemes is a crucial aspect of effective mechanisms aiming to optimize social welfare or revenue. One of the research endeavors of this line of work is \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Song:2020:PBS, author = "Jiayi Song and Roch Gu{\'e}rin", title = "Pricing (and Bidding) Strategies for Delay Differentiated Cloud Services", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "2", pages = "8:1--8:58", month = may, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3381531", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue May 19 09:17:46 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3381531", abstract = "We consider a cloud provider that seeks to maximize its revenue by offering services with different trade-offs between cost and timeliness of job completion. Spot instances and preemptible instances are examples of such services, with, in both cases, \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Chen:2020:PG, author = "Yiling Chen and Or Sheffet and Salil Vadhan", title = "Privacy Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:37", month = may, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3381533", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue May 19 09:17:46 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3381533", abstract = "The problem of analyzing the effect of privacy concerns on the behavior of selfish utility-maximizing agents has received much attention lately. Privacy concerns are often modeled by altering the utility functions of agents to consider also their \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Gast:2020:LRS, author = "Nicolas Gast and Stratis Ioannidis and Patrick Loiseau and Benjamin Roussillon", title = "Linear Regression from Strategic Data Sources", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "2", pages = "10:1--10:24", month = may, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3391436", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue May 19 09:17:46 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3391436", abstract = "Linear regression is a fundamental building block of statistical data analysis. It amounts to estimating the parameters of a linear model that maps input features to corresponding outputs. In the classical setting where the precision of each data point \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Gairing:2020:EEE, author = "Martin Gairing and Kostas Kollias and Grammateia Kotsialou", title = "Existence and Efficiency of Equilibria for Cost-Sharing in Generalized Weighted Congestion Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "2", pages = "11:1--11:28", month = may, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3391434", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue May 19 09:17:46 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3391434", abstract = "This work studies the impact of cost-sharing methods on the existence and efficiency of (pure) Nash equilibria in weighted congestion games. We also study generalized weighted congestion games, where each player may control multiple commodities. Our \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Knop:2020:VBS, author = "Dusan Knop and Martin Kouteck{\'y} and Matthias Mnich", title = "Voting and Bribing in Single-Exponential Time", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "3", pages = "12:1--12:28", month = oct, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3396855", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 3 07:43:29 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3396855", abstract = "We introduce a general problem about bribery in voting systems. In the R-Multi-Bribery problem, the goal is to bribe a set of voters at minimum cost such that a desired candidate is a winner in the perturbed election under the voting rule R. Voters \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Shah:2020:AVI, author = "Nihar B. Shah and Dengyong Zhou", title = "Approval Voting and Incentives in Crowdsourcing", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "3", pages = "13:1--13:40", month = oct, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3396863", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 3 07:43:29 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3396863", abstract = "The growing need for labeled training data has made crowdsourcing a vital tool for developing machine learning applications. Here, workers on a crowdsourcing platform are typically shown a list of unlabeled items, and for each of these items, are asked \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Benabbou:2020:PQB, author = "Nawal Benabbou and Mithun Chakraborty and Xuan-Vinh Ho and Jakub Sliwinski and Yair Zick", title = "The Price of Quota-based Diversity in Assignment Problems", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "3", pages = "14:1--14:32", month = oct, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3411513", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 3 07:43:29 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411513", abstract = "In this article, we introduce and analyze an extension to the matching problem on a weighted bipartite graph (i.e., the assignment problem): Assignment with Type Constraints. Here, the two parts of the graph are each partitioned into subsets, called \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Cummings:2020:PLP, author = "Rachel Cummings and David M. Pennock and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan", title = "The Possibilities and Limitations of Private Prediction Markets", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "3", pages = "15:1--15:24", month = oct, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3412348", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 3 07:43:29 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3412348", abstract = "We consider the design of private prediction markets, financial markets designed to elicit predictions about uncertain events without revealing too much information about market participants' actions or beliefs. Our goal is to design market mechanisms \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Caragiannis:2020:HEC, author = "Ioannis Caragiannis and George A. Krimpas and Alexandros A. Voudouris", title = "How Effective Can Simple Ordinal Peer Grading Be?", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "3", pages = "16:1--16:37", month = oct, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3412347", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 3 07:43:29 MDT 2020", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3412347", abstract = "Ordinal peer grading has been proposed as a simple and scalable solution for computing reliable information about student performance in massive open online courses. The idea is to outsource the grading task to the students themselves as follows. After \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Fu:2020:ISI, author = "Hu Fu and Reshef Meir", title = "Introduction to the Special Issue on {EC'19}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "4", pages = "17:1--17:1", month = nov, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3424651", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3424651", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "17", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Aziz:2020:FMC, author = "Haris Aziz and Anna Bogomolnaia and Herv{\'e} Moulin", title = "Fair Mixing: The Case of Dichotomous Preferences", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "4", pages = "18:1--18:27", month = nov, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3417738", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3417738", abstract = "We consider a setting in which agents vote to choose a fair mixture of public outcomes. The agents have dichotomous preferences: Each outcome is liked or disliked by an agent. We discuss three outstanding voting rules. The Conditional Utilitarian rule, \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "18", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Kleinberg:2020:HDC, author = "Jon Kleinberg and Manish Raghavan", title = "How Do Classifiers Induce Agents to Invest Effort Strategically?", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "4", pages = "19:1--19:23", month = nov, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3417742", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3417742", abstract = "Algorithms are often used to produce decision-making rules that classify or evaluate individuals. When these individuals have incentives to be classified a certain way, they may behave strategically to influence their outcomes. We develop a model for \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "19", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Gergatsouli:2020:CBB, author = "Evangelia Gergatsouli and Brendan Lucier and Christos Tzamos", title = "The Complexity of Black-Box Mechanism Design with Priors", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "4", pages = "20:1--20:19", month = nov, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3417744", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3417744", abstract = "We study black-box reductions from mechanism design to algorithm design for welfare maximization in settings of incomplete information. Given oracle access to an algorithm for an underlying optimization problem, the goal is to simulate an incentive \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "20", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Gravin:2020:OBF, author = "Nick Gravin and Yaonan Jin and Pinyan Lu and Chenhao Zhang", title = "Optimal Budget-Feasible Mechanisms for Additive Valuations", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "4", pages = "21:1--21:15", month = nov, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3417746", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3417746", abstract = "In this article, we show a tight approximation guarantee for budget-feasible mechanisms with an additive buyer. We propose a new simple randomized mechanism with approximation ratio of 2, improving the previous best known result of 3. Our bound is tight \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "21", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Schoenebeck:2020:IMU, author = "Grant Schoenebeck and Biaoshuai Tao", title = "Influence Maximization on Undirected Graphs: Toward Closing the $ (1 - 1 / e) $ Gap", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "4", pages = "22:1--22:36", month = nov, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3417748", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3417748", abstract = "We study the influence maximization problem in undirected networks, specifically focusing on the independent cascade and linear threshold models. We prove APX-hardness (NP-hardness of approximation within factor $ (1 - \tau) $ for some constant $ \tau > 0$) for both \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "22", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Cheng:2020:GFC, author = "Yu Cheng and Zhihao Jiang and Kamesh Munagala and Kangning Wang", title = "Group Fairness in Committee Selection", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "8", number = "4", pages = "23:1--23:18", month = nov, year = "2020", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3417750", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3417750", abstract = "In this article, we study fairness in committee selection problems. We consider a general notion of fairness via stability: A committee is stable if no coalition of voters can deviate and choose a committee of proportional size, so that all these voters \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "23", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Christodoulou:2021:ISIa, author = "Giorgos Christodoulou and Tobias Harks", title = "Introduction to the Special Issue on {WINE'18}: {Part 1}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:1", month = mar, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3447510", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 26 09:07:03 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3447510", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Giannakopoulos:2021:OPM, author = "Yiannis Giannakopoulos and Diogo Po{\c{c}}as and Keyu Zhu", title = "Optimal Pricing for {MHR} and $ \lambda $-regular Distributions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:28", month = mar, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3434423", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 26 09:07:03 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434423", abstract = "We study the performance of anonymous posted-price selling mechanisms for a standard Bayesian auction setting, where n bidders have i.i.d. valuations for a single item. We show that for the natural class of Monotone Hazard Rate (MHR) distributions, \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Goldberg:2021:LCP, author = "Paul W. Goldberg and Francisco J. Marmolejo-Coss{\'\i}o", title = "Learning Convex Partitions and Computing Game-theoretic Equilibria from Best-response Queries", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:36", month = mar, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3434412", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 26 09:07:03 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434412", abstract = "Suppose that an m -simplex is partitioned into n convex regions having disjoint interiors and distinct labels, and we may learn the label of any point by querying it. The learning objective is to know, for any point in the simplex, a label that occurs \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Jalaly:2021:SEB, author = "Pooya Jalaly and {\'E}va Tardos", title = "Simple and Efficient Budget Feasible Mechanisms for Monotone Submodular Valuations", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:20", month = mar, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3434421", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 26 09:07:03 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434421", abstract = "We study the problem of a budget limited buyer who wants to buy a set of items, each from a different seller, to maximize her value. The budget feasible mechanism design problem requires the design a mechanism that incentivizes the sellers to truthfully \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Immorlica:2021:CAO, author = "Nicole Immorlica and Brendan Lucier and Jieming Mao and Vasilis Syrgkanis and Christos Tzamos", title = "Combinatorial Assortment Optimization", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "1", pages = "5:1--5:34", month = mar, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3434415", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 26 09:07:03 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434415", abstract = "Assortment optimization refers to the problem of designing a slate of products to offer potential customers, such as stocking the shelves in a convenience store. The price of each product is fixed in advance, and a probabilistic choice function \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Kephart:2021:RPM, author = "Andrew Kephart and Vincent Conitzer", title = "The Revelation Principle for Mechanism Design with Signaling Costs", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "1", pages = "6:1--6:35", month = mar, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3434408", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 26 09:07:03 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434408", abstract = "The revelation principle is a key tool in mechanism design. It allows the designer to restrict attention to truthful mechanisms, greatly facilitating analysis. This is also borne out algorithmically, allowing certain computational problems in mechanism \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Cseh:2021:PPS, author = "{\'A}gnes Cseh and Attila Juhos", title = "Pairwise Preferences in the Stable Marriage Problem", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "1", pages = "7:1--7:28", month = mar, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3434427", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Mar 26 09:07:03 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434427", abstract = "We study the classical, two-sided stable marriage problem under pairwise preferences. In the most general setting, agents are allowed to express their preferences as comparisons of any two of their edges, and they also have the right to declare a draw \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Christodoulou:2021:ISIb, author = "Giorgos Christodoulou and Tobias Harks", title = "Introduction to the Special Issue on {WINE'18}: {Part 2}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "2", pages = "8:1--8:1", month = may, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3447512", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed May 12 09:13:50 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3447512", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Anshelevich:2021:OAS, author = "Elliot Anshelevich and Wennan Zhu", title = "Ordinal Approximation for Social Choice, Matching, and Facility Location Problems Given Candidate Positions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:24", month = may, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3434417", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed May 12 09:13:50 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434417", abstract = "In this work, we consider general facility location and social choice problems, in which sets of agents A and facilities F are located in a metric space, and our goal is to assign agents to facilities (as well as choose which facilities to open) to \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Cheng:2021:SMB, author = "Yu Cheng and Nick Gravin and Kamesh Munagala and Kangning Wang", title = "A Simple Mechanism for a Budget-Constrained Buyer", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "2", pages = "10:1--10:25", month = may, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3434419", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed May 12 09:13:50 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434419", abstract = "We study a classic Bayesian mechanism design setting of monopoly problem for an additive buyer in the presence of budgets. In this setting, a monopolist seller with m heterogeneous items faces a single buyer and seeks to maximize her revenue. The buyer \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Chawla:2021:TMO, author = "Shuchi Chawla and Joseph (Seffi) Naor and Debmalya Panigrahi and Mohit Singh and Seeun William Umboh", title = "Timing Matters: Online Dynamics in Broadcast Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "2", pages = "11:1--11:22", month = may, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3434425", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed May 12 09:13:50 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434425", abstract = "This article studies the equilibrium states that can be reached in a network design game via natural game dynamics. First, we show that an arbitrarily interleaved sequence of arrivals and departures of players can lead to a polynomially inefficient \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Li:2021:FDH, author = "Z. Li and A. Vetta", title = "The Fair Division of Hereditary Set Systems", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "2", pages = "12:1--12:19", month = may, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3434410", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed May 12 09:13:50 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434410", abstract = "We consider the fair division of indivisible items using the maximin shares measure. Recent work on the topic has focused on extending results beyond the class of additive valuation functions. In this spirit, we study the case where the items form a \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Dickerson:2021:APR, author = "John P. Dickerson and Karthik A. Sankararaman and Aravind Srinivasan and Pan Xu", title = "Allocation Problems in Ride-sharing Platforms: Online Matching with Offline Reusable Resources", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "3", pages = "13:1--13:17", month = sep, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3456756", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Aug 19 08:39:16 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3456756", abstract = "Bipartite-matching markets pair agents on one side of a market with agents, items, or contracts on the opposing side. Prior work addresses online bipartite-matching markets, where agents arrive over time and are dynamically matched to a known set of \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Bilo:2021:CDP, author = "V. Bil{\`o} and M. Mavronicolas", title = "{$ \exists \mathbb {R} $}-complete Decision Problems about (Symmetric) {Nash} Equilibria in (Symmetric) Multi-player Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "3", pages = "14:1--14:25", month = sep, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3456758", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Aug 19 08:39:16 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3456758", abstract = "A decision problem about Nash equilibria is concerned with whether a given game has a Nash equilibrium with certain natural properties. We settle the complexity of such decision problems over multi-player games, establishing that (nearly) all decision \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Kannan:2021:CUI, author = "Aadharsh Kannan and Jacob LaRiviere and R. Preston McAfee", title = "Characterizing the Usage Intensity of Public Cloud", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "3", pages = "15:1--15:18", month = sep, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3456760", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Aug 19 08:39:16 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3456760", abstract = "This article uses precise and novel data on country-level Cloud IaaS and PaaS revenue to measure the intensive margin of technology diffusion across countries and within countries over time. We horse race diffusion models and find that cloud diffusion \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Elbassioni:2021:QEF, author = "Khaled Elbassioni", title = "A {QPTAS} for $ \epsilon $-Envy-Free Profit-Maximizing Pricing on Line Graphs", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "3", pages = "16:1--16:31", month = sep, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3456762", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Aug 19 08:39:16 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3456762", abstract = "We consider the problem of pricing edges of a line graph so as to maximize the profit made from selling intervals to single-minded customers. An instance is given by a set E of n edges with a limited supply for each edge, and a set of m clients, where \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Albers:2021:VPT, author = "Susanne Albers and Dennis Kraft", title = "On the Value of Penalties in Time-Inconsistent Planning", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "3", pages = "17:1--17:18", month = sep, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3456768", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Aug 19 08:39:16 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3456768", abstract = "People tend to behave inconsistently over time due to an inherent present bias. As this may impair performance, social and economic settings need to be adapted accordingly. Common tools to reduce the impact of time-inconsistent behavior are penalties \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "17", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Chakraborty:2021:WEF, author = "Mithun Chakraborty and Ayumi Igarashi and Warut Suksompong and Yair Zick", title = "Weighted Envy-freeness in Indivisible Item Allocation", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "3", pages = "18:1--18:39", month = sep, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3457166", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Aug 19 08:39:16 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3457166", abstract = "We introduce and analyze new envy-based fairness concepts for agents with weights that quantify their entitlements in the allocation of indivisible items. We propose two variants of weighted envy-freeness up to one item (WEF1): strong, where envy can be \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "18", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Paccagnan:2021:OTA, author = "Dario Paccagnan and Rahul Chandan and Bryce L. Ferguson and Jason R. Marden", title = "Optimal Taxes in Atomic Congestion Games", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "3", pages = "19:1--19:33", month = sep, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3457168", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Aug 19 08:39:16 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3457168", abstract = "How can we design mechanisms to promote efficient use of shared resources? Here, we answer this question in relation to the well-studied class of atomic congestion games, used to model a variety of problems, including traffic routing. Within this \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "19", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Chen:2021:MUP, author = "Jiehua Chen and Piotr Skowron and Manuel Sorge", title = "Matchings under Preferences: Strength of Stability and Tradeoffs", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "4", pages = "20:1--20:55", month = dec, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3485000", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485000", abstract = "We propose two solution concepts for matchings under preferences: robustness and near stability. The former strengthens while the latter relaxes the classical definition of stability by Gale and Shapley (1962). Informally speaking, robustness requires \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "20", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Benabbou:2021:FFE, author = "Nawal Benabbou and Mithun Chakraborty and Ayumi Igarashi and Yair Zick", title = "Finding Fair and Efficient Allocations for Matroid Rank Valuations", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "4", pages = "21:1--21:41", month = dec, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3485006", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485006", abstract = "In this article, we present new results on the fair and efficient allocation of indivisible goods to agents whose preferences correspond to matroid rank functions. This is a versatile valuation class with several desirable properties (such as monotonicity \ldots{})", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "21", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Halpern:2021:SEG, author = "Joseph Y. Halpern and Rafael Pass", title = "Sequential Equilibrium in Games of Imperfect Recall", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "4", pages = "22:1--22:26", month = dec, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3485002", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485002", abstract = "Although the definition of sequential equilibrium can be applied without change to games of imperfect recall, doing so leads to arguably inappropriate results. We redefine sequential equilibrium so that the definition agrees with the standard definition \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "22", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{GOlz:2021:FML, author = "Paul G{\"O}lz and Anson Kahng and Simon Mackenzie and Ariel D. Procaccia", title = "The Fluid Mechanics of Liquid Democracy", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "4", pages = "23:1--23:39", month = dec, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3485012", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485012", abstract = "Liquid democracy is the principle of making collective decisions by letting agents transitively delegate their votes. Despite its significant appeal, it has become apparent that a weakness of liquid democracy is that a small subset of agents may gain \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "23", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Mauras:2021:TSR, author = "Simon Mauras", title = "Two-Sided Random Matching Markets: Ex-Ante Equivalence of the Deferred Acceptance Procedures", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "4", pages = "24:1--24:14", month = dec, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3485010", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485010", abstract = "Stable matching in a community consisting of N men and N women is a classical combinatorial problem that has been the subject of intense theoretical and empirical study since its introduction in 1962 in a seminal work by Gale and Shapley. When the input \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "24", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Ganor:2021:CCF, author = "Anat Ganor and Karthik C. S. and D{\"o}m{\"o}t{\"o}r P{\'a}lv{\"o}lgyi", title = "On Communication Complexity of Fixed Point Computation", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "9", number = "4", pages = "25:1--25:27", month = dec, year = "2021", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3485004", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Wed Nov 3 09:48:49 MDT 2021", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485004", abstract = "Brouwer's fixed point theorem states that any continuous function from a compact convex space to itself has a fixed point. Roughgarden and Weinstein (FOCS 2016) initiated the study of fixed point computation in the two-player communication model, where \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "25", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Scheffler:2022:RGE, author = "Robert Scheffler and Martin Strehler and Laura Vargas Koch", title = "Routing Games with Edge Priorities", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:27", month = mar, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3488268", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue May 24 07:06:27 MDT 2022", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3488268", abstract = "Routing games over time are widely studied due to various applications, e.g., transportation, road and air traffic control, logistic in production systems, communication networks like the internet, and financial flows. In this article, we present a new \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Monnot:2022:RGW, author = "Barnab{\'e} Monnot and Francisco Benita and Georgios Piliouras", title = "Routing Games in the Wild: Efficiency, Equilibration, Regret, and a Price of Anarchy Bound via Long Division", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:26", month = mar, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3512747", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue May 24 07:06:27 MDT 2022", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3512747", abstract = "Routing games are amongst the most well studied domains of game theory. How relevant are these pen-and-paper calculations to understanding the reality of everyday traffic routing? We focus on a semantically rich dataset that captures detailed information \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Dargaj:2022:DRG, author = "Jakub Dargaj and Jakob Grue Simonsen", title = "Discounted Repeated Games Having Computable Strategies with No Computable Best Response under Subgame-Perfect Equilibria", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:39", month = mar, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3505585", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue May 24 07:06:27 MDT 2022", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3505585", abstract = "A classic result in computational game theory states that there are infinitely repeated games where one player has a computable strategy that has a best response, but no computable best response. For games with discounted payoff, the result is known to \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Birmpas:2022:CSC, author = "Georgios Birmpas and Evangelos Markakis and Guido Sch{\"a}fer", title = "Cost Sharing over Combinatorial Domains", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:26", month = mar, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3505586", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue May 24 07:06:27 MDT 2022", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3505586", abstract = "We study the problem of designing cost-sharing mechanisms for combinatorial domains. Suppose that multiple items or services are available to be shared among a set of interested agents. The outcome of a mechanism in this setting consists of an assignment, \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Lavi:2022:RBF, author = "Ron Lavi and Or Sattath and Aviv Zohar", title = "Redesigning {Bitcoin}'s Fee Market", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "1", pages = "5:1--5:31", month = mar, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3530799", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue May 24 07:06:27 MDT 2022", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bitcoin.bib; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3530799", abstract = "The Bitcoin payment system involves two agent types: users that transact with the currency and pay fees and miners in charge of authorizing transactions and securing the system in return for these fees. Two of Bitcoin's challenges are (i) securing \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Hoefer:2022:ISI, author = "Martin Hoefer and Xujin Chen and Nikolai Gravin and Ruta Mehta", title = "Introduction to the Special Issue on {WINE'20}: {Part 1}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "2", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = jun, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3555339", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 29 07:45:29 MDT 2022", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555339", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Ma:2022:ROD, author = "Will Ma", title = "Revenue-Optimal Deterministic Auctions for Multiple Buyers with Ordinal Preferences over Fixed-Price Items", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "2", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = jun, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3555045", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 29 07:45:29 MDT 2022", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555045", abstract = "In this article, we introduce a Bayesian revenue-maximizing mechanism design model where the items have fixed, exogenously given prices. Buyers are unit-demand and have an ordinal ranking over purchasing either one of these items at its given price or \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Vinci:2022:NSW, author = "Cosimo Vinci and Vittorio Bil{\`o} and Gianpiero Monaco and Luca Moscardelli", title = "{Nash} Social Welfare in Selfish and Online Load Balancing", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "2", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = jun, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3544978", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 29 07:45:29 MDT 2022", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544978", abstract = "In load-balancing problems there is a set of clients, each wishing to select a resource from a set of permissible ones to execute a certain task. Each resource has a latency function, which depends on its workload, and a client's cost is the completion \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Boehmer:2022:FGV, author = "Niclas Boehmer and Klaus Heeger", title = "A Fine-grained View on Stable Many-to-one Matching Problems with Lower and Upper Quotas", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = jun, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3546605", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 29 07:45:29 MDT 2022", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546605", abstract = "In the NP-hard Hospital Residents problem with lower and upper quotas ( HR-Q$_L^U$ ), the goal is to find a stable matching of residents to hospitals where the number of residents matched to a hospital is either between its lower and upper quota or zero. \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Lock:2022:LSS, author = "Edwin Lock and Paul W. Goldberg and Francisco Marmolejo-Coss{\'\i}o", title = "Learning Strong Substitutes Demand via Queries", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "2", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = jun, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3546604", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Oct 29 07:45:29 MDT 2022", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546604", abstract = "This article addresses the computational challenges of learning strong substitutes demand when given access to a demand (or valuation) oracle. Strong substitutes demand generalises the well-studied gross substitutes demand to a multi-unit setting. Recent \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Giannakopoulos:2022:RRM, author = "Yiannis Giannakopoulos and Diogo Po{\c{c}}as and Alexandros Tsigonias-Dimitriadis", title = "Robust Revenue Maximization Under Minimal Statistical Information", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "3", pages = "11:1--11:??", month = sep, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3546606", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Mar 11 08:34:45 MST 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546606", abstract = "We study the problem of multi-dimensional revenue maximization when selling m items to a buyer that has additive valuations for them, drawn from a (possibly correlated) prior distribution. Unlike traditional Bayesian auction design, we assume that the \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Liu:2022:SSR, author = "Yang Liu and Juntao Wang and Yiling Chen", title = "Surrogate Scoring Rules", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "3", pages = "12:1--12:??", month = sep, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3565559", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Mar 11 08:34:45 MST 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3565559", abstract = "Strictly proper scoring rules (SPSR) are incentive compatible for eliciting information about random variables from strategic agents when the principal can reward agents after the realization of the random variables. They also quantify the quality of \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Cheng:2022:SMR, author = "Christine T. Cheng and Will Rosenbaum", title = "Stable Matchings with Restricted Preferences: Structure and Complexity", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "3", pages = "13:1--13:??", month = sep, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3565558", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Sat Mar 11 08:34:45 MST 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3565558", abstract = "In the stable marriage (SM) problem, there are two sets of agents-traditionally referred to as men and women-and each agent has a preference list that ranks (a subset of) agents of the opposite sex. The goal is to find a matching between men and women \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Schoenebeck:2022:TST, author = "Grant Schoenebeck and Fang-Yi Yu", title = "Two Strongly Truthful Mechanisms for Three Heterogeneous Agents Answering One Question", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "4", pages = "14:1--14:??", month = dec, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3565560", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Apr 6 05:47:13 MDT 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3565560", abstract = "Peer prediction mechanisms incentivize self-interested agents to truthfully report their signals even in the absence of verification by comparing agents' reports with their peers. We propose two new mechanisms, Source and Target Differential Peer \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Gross-Humbert:2022:SSM, author = "Nathana{\"e}l Gross-Humbert and Nawal Benabbou and Aur{\'e}lie Beynier and Nicolas Maudet", title = "Sequential and Swap Mechanisms for Public Housing Allocation with Quotas and Neighbourhood-based Utilities", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "4", pages = "15:1--15:??", month = dec, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3569704", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Apr 6 05:47:13 MDT 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3569704", abstract = "We consider the problem of allocating indivisible items to agents where both agents and items are partitioned into disjoint groups. Following previous works on public housing allocation, each item (or house) belongs to a block (or building) and each agent \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Ma:2022:FMA, author = "Will Ma and Pan Xu and Yifan Xu", title = "Fairness Maximization among Offline Agents in Online-Matching Markets", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "10", number = "4", pages = "16:1--16:??", month = dec, year = "2022", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3569705", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Apr 6 05:47:13 MDT 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3569705", abstract = "Online matching markets (OMMs) are commonly used in today's world to pair agents from two parties (whom we will call offline and online agents) for mutual benefit. However, studies have shown that the algorithms making decisions in these OMMs often leave \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Leonardos:2023:CDP, author = "Stefanos Leonardos and Joseph Sakos and Costas Courcoubetis and Georgios Piliouras", title = "Catastrophe by Design in Population Games: a Mechanism to Destabilize Inefficient Locked-in Technologies", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "1--2", pages = "1:1--1:??", month = jun, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3583782", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Jul 3 06:28:19 MDT 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3583782", abstract = "In multi-agent environments in which coordination is desirable, the history of play often causes lock-in at sub-optimal outcomes. Notoriously, \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "", articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Ahunbay:2023:PAT, author = "Mete Seref Ahunbay and Adrian Vetta", title = "The Price of Anarchy of Two-Buyer Sequential Multiunit Auctions", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "1--2", pages = "2:1--2:??", month = jun, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3584864", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Jul 3 06:28:19 MDT 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584864", abstract = "We study the efficiency of first-/second-price sequential multiunit auctions with two buyers and complete information. Extending the primal-dual framework for \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "", articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Koenemann:2023:FCN, author = "Jochen Koenemann and Justin Toth", title = "A Framework for Computing the Nucleolus via Dynamic Programming", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "1--2", pages = "3:1--3:??", month = jun, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3580375", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Jul 3 06:28:19 MDT 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3580375", abstract = "This article defines a general class of cooperative games for which the nucleolus is efficiently computable. This class includes new members for which the \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "", articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Brandt:2023:RIS, author = "Felix Brandt and Martin Bullinger and Ana{\"e}lle Wilczynski", title = "Reaching Individually Stable Coalition Structures", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "1--2", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = jun, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3588753", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Jul 3 06:28:19 MDT 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3588753", abstract = "The formal study of coalition formation in multi-agent systems is typically realized in the framework of hedonic games, which originate from economic theory. \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "", articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Jha:2023:LFD, author = "Tushant Jha and Yair Zick", title = "A Learning Framework for Distribution-Based Game-Theoretic Solution Concepts", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "1--2", pages = "5:1--5:??", month = jun, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3580374", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Jul 3 06:28:19 MDT 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3580374", abstract = "The past few years have seen several works exploring learning economic solutions from data, including optimal auction design, function optimization, stable \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "", articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Goldberg:2023:ENC, author = "Paul Goldberg and Utku {\"U}nver", title = "Editorial from the New Co-{Editors-in-Chief} of {{\booktitle{ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation}}}", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "3--4", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = dec, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3631669", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Dec 28 07:00:54 MST 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3631669", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Garg:2023:AAM, author = "Jugal Garg and Edin Husi{\'c} and L{\'a}szl{\'o} A. V{\'e}gh", title = "An Auction Algorithm for Market Equilibrium with Weak Gross Substitute Demands", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "3--4", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = dec, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3624558", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Dec 28 07:00:54 MST 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3624558", abstract = "We consider the Arrow--Debreu exchange market model under the assumption that the agents' demands satisfy the weak gross substitutes (WGS) property. We \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Immorlica:2023:PIL, author = "Nicole Immorlica and Sahil Singla and Bo Waggoner", title = "Prophet Inequalities with Linear Correlations and Augmentations", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "3--4", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = dec, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3623273", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Dec 28 07:00:54 MST 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3623273", abstract = "In a classical online decision problem, a decision-maker who is trying to maximize her value inspects a sequence of arriving items to learn their values (drawn \ldots{})", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Shi:2023:SCA, author = "Zhenpeng Shi and David Starobinski and Ariel Orda", title = "Social Cost Analysis of Shared\slash Buy-in Computing Systems", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "3--4", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = dec, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3624355", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Dec 28 07:00:54 MST 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3624355", abstract = "Shared/buy-in computing systems offer users the option to select between buy-in and shared services. In such systems, idle buy-in resources are made \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Gafni:2023:UFA, author = "Yotam Gafni and Xin Huang and Ron Lavi and Inbal Talgam-Cohen", title = "Unified Fair Allocation of Goods and Chores via Copies", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "3--4", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = dec, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3618116", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Dec 28 07:00:54 MST 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3618116", abstract = "We consider fair allocation of indivisible items in a model with goods, chores, and copies, as a unified framework for studying: (1) the existence of EFX and other \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Kleer:2023:TBP, author = "Pieter Kleer and Guido Sch{\"a}fer", title = "Topological Bounds on the Price of Anarchy of Clustering Games on Networks", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "11", number = "3--4", pages = "11:1--11:??", month = dec, year = "2023", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3625689", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Dec 28 07:00:54 MST 2023", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3625689", abstract = "We consider clustering games in which the players are embedded into a network and want to coordinate (or anti-coordinate) their strategy with their neighbors. The \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Levy:2024:TBC, author = "Priel Levy and David Sarne and Yonatan Aumann", title = "Tractable Binary Contests", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:??", month = mar, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3630109", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Mar 19 07:59:34 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3630109", abstract = "Much of the work on multi-agent contests is focused on determining the equilibrium behavior of contestants. This capability is essential for the principal for choosing the optimal parameters for the contest (e.g., prize amount). As it turns out, many \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Abeliuk:2024:PAA, author = "Andr{\'e}s Abeliuk and Khaled Elbassioni and Talal Rahwan and Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan", title = "Price of Anarchy in Algorithmic Matching of Romantic Partners", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:??", month = mar, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3627985", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Mar 19 07:59:34 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3627985", abstract = "Algorithmic matching is a pervasive mechanism in our social lives and is becoming a major medium through which people find romantic partners and potential spouses. However, romantic matching markets pose a principal-agent problem with the potential for \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Ebadian:2024:ODP, author = "Soroush Ebadian and Anson Kahng and Dominik Peters and Nisarg Shah", title = "Optimized Distortion and Proportional Fairness in Voting", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:??", month = mar, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3640760", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Mar 19 07:59:34 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3640760", abstract = "A voting rule decides on a probability distribution over a set of $m$ alternatives, based on rankings of those alternatives provided by agents. We assume that agents have cardinal utility functions over the alternatives, but voting rules have access to only \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Gudmundsson:2024:BBD, author = "Jens Gudmundsson and Jens Leth Hougaard", title = "Blockchain-based Decentralized Reward Sharing: The Case of Mining Pools", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = mar, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3641120", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Mar 19 07:59:34 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bitcoin.bib; https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641120", abstract = "We introduce a reciprocity protocol, an innovative approach to coordinating and sharing rewards in blockchains. Inherently decentralized and implementable, it puts emphasis on incentives rather than forcing specific sharing rules from the outset. Analyzing the non-cooperative game the protocol induces, we identify a robust, strict, and Pareto-dominant symmetric equilibrium. In it, even self-centered participants show extensive systemic reciprocity. Thus, despite a setting that is generally unfavorable to reciprocal behavior, the protocol enables users to build trust between themselves by taking on a role akin to a social contract.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Ko:2024:OPD, author = "Shao-Heng Ko and Kamesh Munagala", title = "Optimal Price Discrimination for Randomized Mechanisms", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "2", pages = "5:1--5:??", month = jun, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3650107", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jun 14 06:38:40 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3650107", abstract = "We study the power of price discrimination via an intermediary in bilateral trade, when there is a revenue-maximizing seller selling an item to a buyer with a private value drawn from a prior. Between the seller and the buyer, there is an intermediary \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Dickerson:2024:MTW, author = "John P. Dickerson and Karthik Sankararaman and Aravind Srinivasan and Pan Xu and Yifan Xu", title = "Matching Tasks and Workers under Known Arrival Distributions: Online Task Assignment with Two-sided Arrivals", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "2", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = jun, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3652021", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jun 14 06:38:40 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3652021", abstract = "Efficient allocation of tasks to workers is a central problem in crowdsourcing. In this article, we consider a setting inspired by spatial crowdsourcing platforms, where both workers and tasks arrive at different times, and each worker-task assignment \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Kinnear:2024:CRT, author = "Ryan Kinnear and Ravi R. Mazumdar and Peter Marbach", title = "Convexity in Real-time Bidding and Related Problems", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "2", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = jun, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3656552", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Jun 14 06:38:40 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3656552", abstract = "We study problems arising in real-time auction markets, common in e-commerce and computational advertising, where bidders face the problem of calculating optimal bids. We focus upon a contract management problem where a demand aggregator is subject to \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Hao:2024:IPN, author = "Bainian Hao and Carla Michini", title = "Inefficiency of pure {Nash} equilibria in network congestion games: the impact of symmetry and network structure", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "3", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = sep, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3665590", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Sep 9 16:22:27 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3665590", abstract = "We study the inefficiency of pure Nash equilibria in symmetric unweighted network congestion games. We first explore the impact of symmetry on the worst-case PoA of network congestion games. For polynomial delay functions with highest degree p, we \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Chakraborty:2024:WFN, author = "Mithun Chakraborty and Erel Segal-Halevi and Warut Suksompong", title = "Weighted Fairness Notions for Indivisible Items Revisited", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "3", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = sep, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3665799", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Sep 9 16:22:27 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3665799", abstract = "We revisit the setting of fairly allocating indivisible items when agents have different weights representing their entitlements. First, we propose a parameterized family of relaxations for weighted envy-freeness and the same for weighted proportionality; \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Cembrano:2024:DIS, author = "Javier Cembrano and Svenja M. Griesbach and Maximilian J. Stahlberg", title = "Deterministic Impartial Selection with Weights", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "3", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = sep, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3677177", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Sep 9 16:22:27 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3677177", abstract = "In the impartial selection problem, a subset of agents up to a fixed size k among a group of n is to be chosen based on votes cast by the agents themselves. A selection mechanism is impartial if no agent can influence its own chance of being selected by \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Elkind:2024:PJR, author = "Edith Elkind and Piotr Faliszewski and Ayumi Igarashi and Pasin Manurangsi and Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin and Warut Suksompong", title = "The Price of Justified Representation", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "3", pages = "11:1--11:??", month = sep, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3676953", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Mon Sep 9 16:22:27 MDT 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3676953", abstract = "In multiwinner approval voting, the goal is to select a k -member committee based on voters' approval ballots. A well-studied concept of proportionality in this context is the justified representation (JR) axiom, which demands that no large cohesive group \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Hoefer:2024:APE, author = "Martin Hoefer and Pasin Manurangsi and Alexandros Psomas", title = "Algorithmic Persuasion with Evidence", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "4", pages = "12:1--12:??", month = dec, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3696470", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Dec 10 07:13:02 MST 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3696470", abstract = "In a game of persuasion with evidence, a sender has private information. By presenting evidence on the information, the sender wishes to persuade a receiver to take a single action (e.g., hire a job candidate, or convict a defendant). The sender's utility \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Guinsburg:2024:SST, author = "Pedro Vaissman Guinsburg and Gustavo Quinder{\'e} Saraiva", title = "Search Steering in Two-Sided Platforms", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "4", pages = "13:1--13:??", month = dec, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3696471", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Dec 10 07:13:02 MST 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3696471", abstract = "Many two-sided platforms are known to steer customers toward certain products based on their willingness to pay. In this article, we study platforms' incentives to adopt this type of market segmentation and present conditions under which this can generate \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Li:2024:HWC, author = "Bo Li and Herve Moulin and Ankang Sun and Yu Zhou", title = "On {Hill}'s Worst-Case Guarantee for Indivisible Bads", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "12", number = "4", pages = "14:1--14:??", month = dec, year = "2024", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3703845", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Dec 10 07:13:02 MST 2024", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3703845", abstract = "We evaluate the fairness of a rule allocating among agents with equal rights by computing their utility for a hypothetical worst-case share, which only depends on their own valuation and the number of agents. For indivisible goods, Budish proposed the \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Castro:2025:EPF, author = "Pablo Castro and Ajit Desai and Han Du and Rodney Garratt and Francisco Rivadeneyra", title = "Estimating Policy Functions in Payment Systems Using Reinforcement Learning", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "1", pages = "1:1--1:??", month = mar, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3691326", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Feb 13 06:12:04 MST 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3691326", abstract = "This article uses reinforcement learning (RL) to approximate the policy rules of banks participating in a high-value payment system (HVPS). The objective of the RL agents is to learn a policy function for the choice of amount of liquidity provided to the \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "1", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Amano:2025:FRA, author = "Yuki Amano and Ayumi Igarashi and Yasushi Kawase and Kazuhisa Makino and Hirotaka Ono", title = "Fair Ride Allocation on a Line", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "1", pages = "2:1--2:??", month = mar, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3708491", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Feb 13 06:12:04 MST 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708491", abstract = "The airport problem is a classical and well-known model of fair cost-sharing for a single facility among multiple agents. This article extends it to a more general setting involving multiple facilities. Specifically, in our model, each agent selects a \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "2", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Aridor:2025:CBP, author = "Guy Aridor and Yishay Mansour and Aleksandrs Slivkins and Steven Wu", title = "Competing Bandits: The Perils of Exploration Under Competition", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "1", pages = "3:1--3:??", month = mar, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3711831", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Feb 13 06:12:04 MST 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3711831", abstract = "Most online platforms learn from interactions with users and engage in exploration: making potentially suboptimal choices to acquire new information. We study the interplay between exploration and competition: how such platforms balance the exploration \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "3", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Hirai:2025:PCA, author = "Hiroshi Hirai and Ryosuke Sato", title = "Polyhedral Clinching Auctions for Indivisible Goods", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = mar, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3708506", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Feb 13 06:12:04 MST 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708506", abstract = "In this study, we propose a polyhedral clinching auction for indivisible goods, which has so far been studied for divisible goods. As in the divisible setting by Goel et al. (2015), our mechanism enjoys incentive compatibility, individual rationality, and \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "4", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Aziz:2025:CCS, author = "Haris Aziz and Gergely Cs{\'a}ji and {\'A}gnes Cseh", title = "Computational Complexity of $k$-stable Matchings", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "1", pages = "5:1--5:??", month = mar, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3708507", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Thu Feb 13 06:12:04 MST 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", URL = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708507", abstract = "We study deviations by a group of agents in the three main types of matching markets: the house allocation, the marriage, and the roommates models. For a given instance, we call a matching k-stable if no other matching exists that is more beneficial to at \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "5", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Boehmer:2025:CSD, author = "Niclas Boehmer and Martin Bullinger and Anna Maria Kerkmann", title = "Causes of Stability in Dynamic Coalition Formation", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "2", pages = "6:1--6:??", month = jun, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3711671", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri May 16 06:55:02 MDT 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the formation of stable outcomes via simple dynamics in cardinal hedonic games, where the valuations of agents change over time depending on the history of the coalition formation process. Specifically, we analyze situations where members of a \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "6", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Ezra:2025:PIE, author = "Tomer Ezra and Stefano Leonardi and Rebecca Reiffenhauser and Matteo Russo and Alexandros Tsigonias-Dimitriadis", title = "Prophet Inequalities via the Expected Competitive Ratio", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "2", pages = "7:1--7:??", month = jun, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3717076", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri May 16 06:55:02 MDT 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider prophet inequalities under general downward-closed constraints. In a prophet inequality problem, a decision-maker sees a series of online elements with values and needs to decide immediately and irrevocably whether or not to select each \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "7", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Tan:2025:TPT, author = "Xiaoqi Tan and Siyuan Yu and Raouf Boutaba and Alberto Leon-Garcia", title = "Threshold Policies with Tight Guarantees for Online Selection with Convex Costs", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "2", pages = "8:1--8:??", month = jun, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3723351", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri May 16 06:55:02 MDT 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "This article provides threshold policies with tight guarantees for online selection with convex cost (OSCC). In OSCC, a seller wants to sell some asset to a sequence of buyers with the goal of maximizing her profit. The seller can produce additional units \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "8", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Amanatidis:2025:PAB, author = "Georgios Amanatidis and Sophie Klumper and Evangelos Markakis and Guido Sch{\"a}fer and Artem Tsikiridis", title = "Partial Allocations in Budget-Feasible Mechanism Design: Bridging Multiple Levels of Service and Divisible Agents", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "2", pages = "9:1--9:??", month = jun, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3723883", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri May 16 06:55:02 MDT 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Budget-feasible procurement has been a major paradigm in mechanism design since its introduction by Singer [ 28 ]. An auctioneer (buyer) with a strict budget constraint is interested in buying goods or services from a group of strategic agents (sellers). In \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "9", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Christodoulou:2025:TAG, author = "George Christodoulou and Elias Koutsoupias and Annamaria Kovacs", title = "Truthful Allocation in Graphs and Hypergraphs", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "2", pages = "10:1--10:??", month = jun, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3718360", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri May 16 06:55:02 MDT 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study truthful mechanisms for allocation problems in graphs, both for the minimization (i.e., scheduling) and maximization (i.e., auctions) setting. The minimization problem is a special case of the well-studied unrelated machines scheduling problem, \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "10", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Raach:2025:APR, author = "Stephen Raach and Sven de Vries", title = "An Ascending Polynomial Running Time {Vickrey} Auction for Selling Bases of an Integer Polymatroid", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "3", pages = "11:1--11:31", month = sep, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3727625", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Sep 23 08:22:14 MDT 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "Consider a single auctioneer who wants to sell multiple units of distinct indivisible items to bidders with private valuations. The set of feasible allocations is constrained to integer base points, which are the integer points of an integer base \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "11", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Hummel:2025:MSH, author = "Halvard Hummel", title = "Maximin Shares in Hereditary Set Systems", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "3", pages = "12:1--12:33", month = sep, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3727149", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Sep 23 08:22:14 MDT 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items under the criteria of the maximin share guarantee. Specifically, we study approximation of maximin share allocations under hereditary set system valuations, in which each valuation \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "12", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Eickhoff:2025:FDA, author = "Katharina Eickhoff and Meike Neuwohner and Britta Peis and Niklas Rieken and Laura Vargas Koch and L{\'a}szl{\'o} A. V{\'e}gh", title = "Faster Dynamic Auctions via Polymatroid Sum", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "3", pages = "13:1--13:47", month = sep, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3729429", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Sep 23 08:22:14 MDT 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We consider dynamic auctions for finding Walrasian equilibria in markets with indivisible items and strong gross substitutes valuation functions. Each price adjustment step in these auction algorithms requires finding an inclusion-wise minimal maximally \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "13", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Viswanathan:2025:GFF, author = "Vignesh Viswanathan and Yair Zick", title = "A General Framework for Fair Allocation under Matroid Rank Valuations", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "3", pages = "14:1--14:32", month = sep, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3728367", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Sep 23 08:22:14 MDT 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods among agents with matroid rank valuations: Every good provides a marginal value of 0 or 1 when added to a bundle and valuations are submodular. We present a simple algorithmic framework, \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "14", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Maiti:2025:QEA, author = "Arnab Maiti and Ross Boczar and Kevin Jamieson and Lillian Ratliff", title = "Query-Efficient Algorithm to Find all {Nash} Equilibria in a Two-Player Zero-Sum Matrix Game", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "3", pages = "15:1--15:18", month = sep, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3732787", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Tue Sep 23 08:22:14 MDT 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study the query complexity of finding the set of all Nash equilibria $ \mathcal {X}_\star \unicode {x00D7} \mathcal {Y}_\star $ in two-player zero-sum matrix games. Fearnley and Savani [ 18 ] showed that for any randomized algorithm, there exists an n $ \times $ \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "15", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Archbold:2025:NOM, author = "Thomas Archbold and Bart de Keijzer and Carmine Ventre", title = "Non-Obvious Manipulability for Single-Parameter Agents and Bilateral Trade", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "4", pages = "16:1--16:26", month = dec, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3746458", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Nov 21 11:45:28 MST 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "A recent line of work in mechanism design has focused on guaranteeing incentive compatibility for agents without contingent reasoning skills: obviously strategyproof mechanisms guarantee that it is ``obvious'' for these imperfectly rational agents to behave \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "16", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Ferraioli:2025:TWG, author = "Diodato Ferraioli and Paolo Penna and Carmine Ventre", title = "Two-way Greedy: Algorithms for Imperfect Rationality", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "4", pages = "17:1--17:38", month = dec, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3760425", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Nov 21 11:45:28 MST 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "The realization that selfish interests need to be accounted for in the design of algorithms has produced many interesting and valuable contributions in computer science under the general umbrella of algorithmic mechanism design. Our work stems from the \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "17", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Abels:2025:PIT, author = "Andreas Abels and Elias Pitschmann and Daniel Schmand", title = "Prophet Inequalities over Time", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "4", pages = "18:1--18:36", month = dec, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3766547", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Nov 21 11:45:28 MST 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "In this article, we introduce an over-time variant of the well-known prophet inequality with i.i.d. random variables. Instead of stopping with one realized value at some point in the process, we decide for each step how long we select the value. Then we \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "18", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", } @Article{Mohan:2025:AMD, author = "Divyarthi Mohan and Pawel Pralat", title = "Asynchronous Majority Dynamics on Binomial Random Graphs", journal = j-TEAC, volume = "13", number = "4", pages = "19:1--19:26", month = dec, year = "2025", CODEN = "????", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3771091", ISSN = "2167-8375 (print), 2167-8383 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "2167-8375", bibdate = "Fri Nov 21 11:45:28 MST 2025", bibsource = "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/teac.bib", abstract = "We study information aggregation in networks when agents interact to learn a binary state of the world. Initially each agent privately observes an independent signal which is correct with probability $ \frac {1}{2} + \delta $ for some $\delta > 0$. At each round, \ldots{}", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, ajournal = "ACM Trans. Econ. Comput.", articleno = "19", fjournal = "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation", journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/loi/teac", }