Truthfulness via Proxies
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چکیده
This short note exhibits a truthful-in-expectation O( logm log logm )-approximation mechanism for combinatorial auctions with subadditive bidders that uses polynomial communication.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1011.3232 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010