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Event

Microsoft Research @ ACM EC’17

June 26, 2017 – June 30, 2017 | Cambridge, MA

The Eighteenth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC’17) will be held at MIT in Cambridge, MA, June 26-30, 2017. Microsoft scientists co-authored 21% of the accepted papers, or 16 out of 75. The…

Video

Network Pricing: How to Induce Optimal Flows Under Strategic Link Operators

June 21, 2017 | Evdokia Nikolova

Network pricing games provide a framework for modeling real-world settings with two types of strategic agents: users of the network and owners (operators) of the network. Owners of the network post a price for usage…

Network Pricing: How to Induce Optimal Flows Under Strategic Link Operators

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Publication

The Menu-Size Complexity of Revenue Approximation

Moshe Babaioff, Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Noam Nisan

The 49th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2017) | June 2017

Working paper

Publication

A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Spatio-Temporal Security Games

Soheil Behnezhad, Mahsa Derakhshan, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Aleksandrs Slivkins

June 2017

Video

The Making of Project Sangam

June 7, 2017 | Sriram Rajamani, Siddharth Prakash, Walid Mohamed, Avinash Oojorah, Anil Bhansali

Microsoft Research India started project MEC to understand the adoption of quality educational content in India and how technology can help uplift this adoption rate. The platform saw great adoption in India, Middle East, and…