Title
Mechanism design for resource allocation with applications to centralized multi-commodity routing.
Abstract
We formulate and study the algorithmic mechanism design problem for a general class of resource allocation settings, where the center redistributes the private resources brought by individuals. Money transfer is forbidden. Distinct from the standard literature, which assumes the amount of resources brought by an individual to be public information, we consider this amount as an agent's private, possibly multi-dimensional type. Our goal is to design truthful mechanisms that achieve two objectives: max-min and Pareto efficiency. For each objective, we provide a reduction that converts any optimal algorithm into a strategy-proof mechanism that achieves the same objective. Our reductions do not inspect the input algorithms but only query these algorithms as oracles. Applying the reductions, we produce strategy-proof mechanisms in a non-trivial application: network route allocation. Our models and result in the application are valuable on their own rights.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.5555/2772879.2773413
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
mechanism design, strategyproof, resource allocation, network routing
Mathematical optimization,Public information,Commodity,Network routing,Computer science,Algorithmic mechanism design,Mechanism design,Resource allocation,Pareto efficiency,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1503.06536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
18
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qipeng Liu17610.36
Yi-Cheng Liu24113.29
Pingzhong Tang313332.06