Mechanism Design is concerned with how to implement system wide solutions to problems that involve multiple self-interested agents, each with private information about their preferences. Mechanism Design Optimization Problem is a mechanism design problem where the output specification is given by a positive real valued objective function and a set of feasible outputs, and we require an output t...

Distributed Algorithmic Mechanism Design Rahul Sami 2003 Distributed algorithmic mechanism design (DAMD) is an approach to designing distributed systems that takes into account both the distributed-computational environment and the incentives of autonomous agents. In this dissertation, we study two problems, multicast cost sharing and interdomain routing. We also touch upon several issues impor...

In situations in which the social planner has to make several decisions over time, before agents have observed all the relevant information, static mechanisms may not su¢ ce to induce agents to reveal their information truthfully. This paper focuses on questions of partial and full implementation in dynamic mechanisms, when agents’ beliefs are unknown to the designer (hence the term “robust”). ...

We consider a simple mechanism design problem with private values in which each agent perceives Knightian uncertainty over his opponents’ types. Uncertainty is formalized using incomplete preferences as in Bewley (1986). We show that the seller can extract all gains from trade with a direct mechanism in which truth-telling is a Nash equilibrium, in the sense that no buyer has a unilateral incen...

The goal is to design algorithms that succeed in models where input is reported by strategic agents (henceforth referred to as strategic input), as opposed to standard models where the input is directly given (henceforth referred to as honest input). For example, consider a resource allocation problem where a single user has m jobs to process on n self-interested machines. Each machine i can pr...

mechanical weeding is one of the non-chemical methods to control weeds. in this paper a ‎new mechanism has been presented for mechanical cultivation. the machine works based on ‎the manual tools operation, which farmers still use in small scale for weeding and consists of a ‎number of four-bar linkage mechanisms. each mechanism consists of a blade which moves ‎forward (active course) and backwa...