Optimizing shared vehicle systems (bike-sharing/car-sharing/ride-sharing) is more challenging compared to traditional resource allocation settings due to the presence of complex network externalities - changes in the demand/supply at any location …
We study the design of mechanisms without money for repeated allocation of resources among competing agents. Such mechanisms are gaining widespread use in allocating physical and/or computing resources in universities and companies, and also …
In online marketplaces, a critical objective of the platform's intermediation is ensuring the sellers' quality. This is particularly challenging in large marketplaces, where it's infeasible to pre-screen all sellers, and the platform uses feedback …
Nearly all online marketplaces face the challenge of ensuring the quality of sellers; this is particularly challenging in large marketplaces, where it may be infeasible to pre-screen all sellers. A growing trend in such settings is to use feedback …
An essential primitive for an efficient research ecosystem is *partial-progress sharing* (PPS) - whereby a researcher shares information immediately upon making a breakthrough. This helps prevent duplication of work; however there is evidence that …