Title
Deferred-Acceptance Auctions for Multiple Levels of Service.
Abstract
Deferred-acceptance (DA) auctions} are mechanisms that are based on backward-greedy algorithms and possess a number of remarkable incentive properties, including implementation as an obviously-strategyproof ascending auction. All existing work on DA auctions considers only binary single-parameter problems, where each bidder either ``wins'' or ``loses.'' This paper generalizes the DA auction framework to non-binary settings, and applies this generalized framework to obtain approximately welfare-maximizing DA auctions for a number of basic mechanism design problems: multiunit auctions, problems with polymatroid constraints or multiple knapsack constraints, and the problem of scheduling jobs to minimize their total weighted completion time. Our results require the design of novel backward-greedy algorithms with good approximation guarantees.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3033274.3085142
EC
Keywords
Field
DocType
deferred-acceptance auctions, mechanism design, social welfare, approximation algorithms, scheduling
Approximation algorithm,Mathematical optimization,Polymatroid,Level of service,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Combinatorial auction,Microeconomics,Common value auction,Mechanism design,Knapsack problem
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
21
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vasilis Gkatzelis113714.77
Evangelos Markakis2122586.93
Tim Roughgarden34177353.32