Economics - Microsoft Research

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From Competition to Complementarity: Comparative Influence Diffusion and Maximization

Wei Lu, Wei Chen, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan

Proceedings of the VLDB Sept., 2016 | November 2015

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社交网络影响力传播研究 (Research on influence diffusion in social networks)

Wei Chen

大数据 (Big Data Research) | October 2015, Vol 1

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Big Data and Bayesian Nonparametrics

September 16, 2015 | Matt Taddy

Big Data is often characterized by large sample sizes, high dimensions, and strange variable distributions. For example, an e-commerce website has 10-100s million observations weekly on a huge number of variables with density spikes at…

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Publication

Optimal Lost-Link Policies for Unmanned Aircraft

Youngjun Kim, Mykel Kochenderfer, Justin Grana, David Wolpert

2015 IEEE/AIAA 34th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) | September 2015

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Expertise in the Field Fades in the Lab

Etan Green, Justin Rao, David Rothschild

September 2015

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Optimal management of a stochastically varying population when policy adjustment is costly

Carl Boettiger, Michael Bode, James N. Sanchirico, Jacob LaRiviere, Alan Hastings, Paul R. Armsworth

Ecological Applications | August 2015, Vol 26(3): pp. 808-817

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Randomization Beats Second Price as a Prior-Independent Auction

Hu Fu, Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier, Philipp Strack

ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2015 | July 2015

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Ignorance is Almost Bliss: Near-Optimal Stochastic Matching With Few Queries

Avrim Blum, John P. Dickerson, Nika Haghtalab, Ariel D. Procaccia, Tuomas Sandholm, Ankit Sharma

Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2015. | July 2015

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Commitment Without Regrets: Online Learning in Stackelberg Security Games

Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Nika Haghtalab, Ariel D. Procaccia

Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2015. | July 2015

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Microeconomics

This group is composed of economists in Microsoft Research and the Office of the Chief Economist, who fill the roles of: full-time researchers, post-docs, visitors, interns, and research assistants.