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Game Theory II

New Constructions of Mechanisms with Verification

Vincenzo Auletta1, Roberto De Prisco1, Paolo Penna1, Giuseppe Persiano1 and Carmine Ventre1

(1)  Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Università di Salerno, Italy
Abstract
A social choice function A is implementable with verification if there exists a payment scheme P such that (A,P) is a truthful mechanism for verifiable agents [Nisan and Ronen, STOC 99]. We give a simple sufficient condition for a social choice function to be implementable with verification for comparable types. Comparable types are a generalization of the well-studied one-parameter agents. Based on this characterization, we show that a large class of objective functions μ admit social choice functions that are implementable with verification and minimize (or maximize) μ. We then focus on the well-studied case of one-parameter agents. We give a general technique for constructing efficiently computable social choice functions that minimize or approximately minimize objective functions that are non-increasing and neutral (these are functions that do not depend on the valuations of agents that have no work assigned to them). As a corollary we obtain efficient online and offline mechanisms with verification for some hard scheduling problems on related machines.

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