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Chapter and Conference Paper
Budget Feasible Mechanisms for Experimental Design
We present a deterministic, polynomial time, budget feasible mechanism scheme, that is approximately truthful and yields a constant (≈ 12.98) factor approximation for the Experimental Design Problem (EDP). By app...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Scienceography: The Study of How Science Is Written
Scientific literature has itself been the subject of much scientific study, for a variety of reasons: understanding how results are communicated, how ideas spread, and assessing the influence of areas or indiv...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Budget Optimization for Online Campaigns with Positive Carryover Effects
While it is relatively easy to start an online advertising campaign, proper allocation of the marketing budget is far from trivial. A major challenge faced by the marketers attempting to optimize their campaig...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Strictly-Black-Box Zero-Knowledge and Efficient Validation of Financial Transactions
Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are one of the most striking innovations in theoretical computer science. In practice, the prevalent ZKP methods are, at times, too complicated to be useful for real-life applicati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Approximation Schemes for Sequential Posted Pricing in Multi-unit Auctions
We design algorithms for computing approximately revenue-maximizing sequential posted-pricing mechanisms (SPM) in K-unit auctions, in a standard Bayesian model. A seller has K copies of an item to sell, and there...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Selective Call Out and Real Time Bidding
Ads on the Internet are increasingly sold via ad exchanges such as RightMedia, AdECN and Doubleclick Ad Exchange. These exchanges allow real-time bidding, that is, each time the publisher contacts the exchange...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Estimating Entropy and Entropy Norm on Data Streams
We consider the problem of computing information theoretic functions such as entropy on a data stream, using sublinear space.