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Indian Railways have one of the biggest infrastructures in terms of number of Express trains run per day across cities . It is comparable to any railways in the world. For each Express train there is a "TATKAL" scheme that reserves few seats on emergency basis. In the existing scheme for each seat a ticket is issued after charging a fixed price. However, for different distance different...
In this paper, we consider an emerging scenario in sponsored Web search auctions where ad networks would be involved as intermediaries between a search engine and its advertisers. In this context, we address the problem of the ad network identifying a bid profile that makes the sponsored search auction attractive to the registered bidders. Given (1) the valuation of the advertisers competing for sponsored...
We develop strategy/false-name-proof multi-unit auction protocols for non-quasi-linear utilities. One almost universal assumption in auction theory literature is that each bidder has quasi-linear utility. However, in practice, a bidder might have some kind of financial condition including budget constraints. The Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) protocol is designed to be truthful under the quasi-linear...
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