Internet and Network Economics: 8th International Workshop, WINE 2012, Liverpool, UK, December 10-12, 2012. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of a Competitive Diffusion Process over Social Networks....Pages 1-14
Agent Failures in Totally Balanced Games and Convex Games....Pages 15-29
An Economic Analysis of User-Privacy Options in Ad-Supported Services....Pages 30-43
Auctions with Heterogeneous Items and Budget Limits....Pages 44-57
Bayesian Mechanism Design with Efficiency, Privacy, and Approximate Truthfulness....Pages 58-71
Bounded-Distance Network Creation Games....Pages 72-85
Budget Optimization for Online Campaigns with Positive Carryover Effects....Pages 86-99
Choosing Products in Social Networks....Pages 100-113
Efficiently Learning from Revealed Preference....Pages 114-127
Funding Games: The Truth but Not the Whole Truth....Pages 128-141
Greedy Selfish Network Creation....Pages 142-155
Group Activity Selection Problem....Pages 156-169
Incentive Compatible Two Player Cake Cutting....Pages 170-183
LP-Based Covering Games with Low Price of Anarchy....Pages 184-197
Mechanism Design for a Risk Averse Seller....Pages 198-211
Mechanism Design for Time Critical and Cost Critical Task Execution via Crowdsourcing....Pages 212-226
Non-redistributive Second Welfare Theorems....Pages 227-243
On Budget-Balanced Group-Strategyproof Cost-Sharing Mechanisms....Pages 244-255
On Coalitions and Stable Winners in Plurality....Pages 256-269
On the Efficiency of Influence-and-Exploit Strategies for Revenue Maximization under Positive Externalities....Pages 270-283
On the Efficiency of the Simplest Pricing Mechanisms in Two-Sided Markets....Pages 284-297
Optimal Pricing Is Hard....Pages 298-308
Privacy Auctions for Recommender Systems....Pages 309-322
Redistribution of VCG Payments in Public Project Problems....Pages 323-336
Simultaneous Single-Item Auctions....Pages 337-349
Smooth Inequalities and Equilibrium Inefficiency in Scheduling Games....Pages 350-363
Social Context in Potential Games....Pages 364-377
Take It or Leave It: Running a Survey When Privacy Comes at a Cost....Pages 378-391
The Max-Distance Network Creation Game on General Host Graphs....Pages 392-405
The Power of Local Information in Social Networks....Pages 406-419
The Price of Anarchy for Selfish Ring Routing Is Two....Pages 420-433
Triadic Consensus....Pages 434-447
Truthful Mechanism Design for Multidimensional Covering Problems....Pages 448-461
What I Tell You Three Times Is True: Bootstrap Percolation in Small Worlds....Pages 462-474
Ad Allocation for Browse Sessions....Pages 475-481
Computing a Profit-Maximizing Sequence of Offers to Agents in a Social Network....Pages 482-488
Convergence Analysis for Weighted Joint Strategy Fictitious Play in Generalized Second Price Auction....Pages 489-495
Convergence of Best-Response Dynamics in Games with Conflicting Congestion Effects....Pages 496-503
Forming Networks of Strategic Agents with Desired Topologies....Pages 504-511
Homophily in Online Social Networks....Pages 512-518
Limited Supply Online Auctions for Revenue Maximization....Pages 519-525
Lower Bounds on Revenue of Approximately Optimal Auctions....Pages 526-531
On Fixed-Price Marketing for Goods with Positive Network Externalities....Pages 532-538
The Competitive Facility Location Problem in a Duopoly: Connections to the 1-Median Problem....Pages 539-545
The Ring Design Game with Fair Cost Allocation....Pages 546-552
Tight Lower Bounds on Envy-Free Makespan Approximation....Pages 553-558
Biased Assimilation, Homophily, and the Dynamics of Polarization....Pages 559-559
Generalized Weighted Model Counting: An Efficient Monte-Carlo meta-algorithm (Working Paper)....Pages 560-560
The AND-OR Game: Equilibrium Characterization....Pages 561-561
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