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TechFest Workshop – Theory Day – Session 1

March 10, 2016 | Bobby Kleinberg

We explore the misalignment of incentives in systems that use crowdsourced effort to solve large problems made up of smaller tasks, for example aggregating millions of reviews to create a system for recommending products or…

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To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts

Benjamin G. Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, Scott Duke Kominers

Marketing Letters | February 2016, Vol 27(1): pp. 39-53

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Multi-Score Position Auctions

Denis Charles, Nikhil Devanur, Balasubramanian Sivan

WSDM ’16 Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining | February 2016

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Learning Market Parameters Using Aggregate Demand Queries

Xiaohui Bei, Wei Chen, Jugal Garg, Martin Hoefer, Xiaoming Sun

Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2016), Phoenix, U.S.A., February, 2016. | February 2016

Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2016)

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Bringing Harmony Through AI and Economics

February 11, 2016 | Nisarg Shah, Robert Schapire

The alliance between AI and economics is making an ever-growing societal impact. I will focus on an emerging theme in this space: developing computer programs that help groups of people make harmonious everyday decisions. I…