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Designing the perfect auction
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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 51 ,  Issue 8  (August 2008) table of contents
Designing games with a purpose
COLUMN: News table of contents
Pages: 9-11  
Year of Publication: 2008
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Hal R. Varian  Google
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Distributed algorithmic mechanism design is a field at the intersection of computer science and economics.


CITED BY
Jingzhi Guo , Zhuo Hu , Zhiguo Gong, Technical construction methods for e-marketplace, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, August 12-15, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  F. Theory of Computation
  F.2 ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS AND PROBLEM COMPLEXITY
      F.2.2 Nonnumerical Algorithms and Problems

Additional Classification:
  G. Mathematics of Computing
  G.2 DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
      I.2.1 Applications and Expert Systems
          Subjects: Games

  J. Computer Applications
  J.4 SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES


General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Theory


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This short article does three rather interesting things. First, it presents the concept of algorithmic mechanism theory as an inverse of game theory. Game theory, growing out of pioneering work by von Neumann in the 1940s, is a mathematical treatm  more...

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