The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

Targeted advertising has transformed the marketing landscape for a wide variety of
businesses, by creating new opportunities for advertisers to reach prospective customers by …

Matching problems under preferences have been studied widely in mathematics, computer
science and economics, starting with the seminal paper by Gale and Shapley (1962). A …

Sponsored search has been proven to be a successful business model, and sponsored
search auctions have become a hot research direction. There have been many exciting …

In e-commerce advertising, it is crucial to jointly consider various performance metrics, eg,
user experience, advertiser utility, and platform revenue. Traditional auction mechanisms …

We study multi-unit auctions for bidders that have a budget constraint, a situation very
common in practice that has received relatively little attention in the auction theory literature …

With the proliferation of huge amounts of (heterogeneous) data on the Web, the importance
of information retrieval (IR) has grown considerably over the last few years. Big players in …

Recent advances in click model have positioned it as an attractive method for representing
user preferences in web search and online advertising. Yet, most of the existing works focus …

In settings where players have limited access to liquidity, represented in the form of budget
constraints, efficiency maximization has proven to be a challenging goal. In particular, the …

A central issue in applying auction theory in practice is the problem of dealing with budget-
constrained agents. A desirable goal in practice is to design incentive compatible …