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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…

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On the Team Selection Problem

Milan Vojnovic, Se-Young Yun

MSR-TR-2016-7 | February 2016

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Economics of a Supercloud

Ian Kash, Qin Jia, Zhiming Shen, Weijia Song, Robert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon

Cross Cloud Workshop | January 2016

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Simple Pricing Schemes For Consumers With Evolving Values

Shuchi Chawla, Nikhil Devanur, Anna R. Karlin, Balasubramanian Sivan

In Proc. SODA 2016 | January 2016

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Stability of Service under Time-of-Use Pricing

Shuchi Chawla, Nikhil R. Devanur, Alexander E. Holroyd, Anna R. Karlin, James Martin, Balasubramanian Sivan

January 2016

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Bounded Rationality in Wagering Mechanisms

David Pennock, Vasilis Syrgkanis, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

32nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | January 2016

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Pricing the Cloud

Ian Kash, Peter Key

IEEE Internet Computing | January 2016, Vol 20: pp. 36-43

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The (Non)-Existence of Stable Mechanisms in Incomplete Information Environments

Nick Arnosti, Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier

The 11th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2015) | December 2015

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Extensive crowdsourcing study reveals surprising results in reversal of platform design assumptions

November 9, 2015

By John Kaiser, Research News A 21-month study on the dynamics of crowdsourcing shows workers depend on collaborating with each other, upending platform designers’ long-held assumptions of crowdsourcing tasks performed in isolation. “People spend far…

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The Sample Complexity of Auctions with Side Information

Nikhil Devanur, Zhiyi Huang, Christos-Alexandros Psomas

In Proc. STOC 2016 | November 2015