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Social welfare in one-sided matchings: Random priority and beyond.

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We study the problem of approximate social welfare maximization (without money) in onesided matching problems when agents have unrestricted cardinal preferences over a finite set of items. Random priority is a very well-known truthful-in-expectation mechanism for the problem. We prove that the approximation ratio of random priority is Θ(n1=2) while no truthful-in-expectation mechanism can achieve an approximation ratio better than O(n1=2), where n is the number of agents and items. Furthermor...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1007/978-3-662-44803-8_1

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University of Oxford
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MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
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Zhang, J
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Advanced Grant 321171 (ALGAME
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Springer Verlag Publisher's website
Host title:
SAGT 2014: 7th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory
Volume:
abs/1403.1508
Pages:
1-12
Publication date:
2014-10-01
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1611-3349
ISBN:
9783662448021
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pubs:578433
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uuid:3f94eb43-1ea6-4bfc-ad3e-597978c90968
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pubs:578433
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578433
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2016-02-10

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