Mechanism design on social networks has attracted extensive attention recently. The goal is
to design mechanisms to incentivize participants to invite more participants via their social …

Mechanism design has traditionally assumed that the participants are fixed and
independent. However, in reality, the participants are well-connected (eg, via their social …

We consider an auction design problem where a seller sells multiple homogeneous items to
a set of connected buyers. Each buyer only knows the buyers she directly connects with and …

Consider a frequent scenario, where a group of people form a partnership for a startup [20].
They have different abilities or funds to contribute and can cooperate to create values …

Designing auctions to incentivize buyers to invite new buyers via their social connections is
a new trend in mechanism design. The challenge is that buyers are competitors and we …

In cooperative games, we study how values created or costs incurred by a coalition are
shared among the members within it, and the players may join the coalition in a online …

Diffusion auction design for combinatorial settings is a long-standing challenge. One
difficulty is that we cannot directly extend the solutions for simpler settings to combinatorial …

This research investigates the problem of reward distribution in social networks to increase
the effectiveness of crowdsourcing tasks for sponsors. Our goal is to design reward …

This paper studies one-sided matching with initial endowments and the social connections
between participants are specifically considered (their social network). Different from the …

The latest trend in auction design involves creating mechanisms that encourage buyers to
bring new participants into the auction through their social networks. This presents a unique …