A General Solution to King Solomon's Dilemma

A General Solution To King Solomon’s Dilemma*

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Make a guess: a robust mechanism for King Solomon’s dilemma

We introduce endogenous fees for participating in second-price auction which we use for a two-stage mechanism to solve King Solomon’s dilemma. They are positive for all agents. They are nonetheless shown to maintain the agents’ incentives for truthful bidding and guarantee participation by the highest-value agent. This feature of the endogenous fees is powerful enough for the efficient outcome ...

Reanalyzing reverse payment settlements: a solution to the patentee's dilemma.

Regularized SOM - Training : A Solution to the Topology - Approximation Dilemma ?

The self-organizing map (SOM) is a tool which combines the task of vector quantisation with a topologically ordered representation of the training vectors. The topological order is obtained by an adaptation of the winner and its neighbours towards the input vector and leads to several eeects, which reduce the approximation quality. Topology and approximation seem to be contradictory. This is li...

A Nominalist’s Dilemma and its Solution∗

Current versions of nominalism in the philosophy of mathematics have the benefit of avoiding commitment to the existence of mathematical objects. But this comes with a cost: to avoid commitment to mathematical entities, nominalists cannot take mathematical theories literally, and so, they seem unable to accommodate mathematical practice. In a recent work, Jody Azzouni has challenged this conclu...