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

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 appro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Filos-Ratsikas, A, Frederiksen, S, Zhang, J
Other Authors: Lavi, R
Format: Conference item
Published: Springer Verlag 2014