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Two Player Game Variant Of The Erdos Szekeres Problem
(2014-08-01)
The following problem has been known for its beauty and elementary character. The Erd˝os Szekeres problem[7]:
For any integer k ≥ 3, determine if there exists a smallest positive integer N(k) such that any set of atleast ...
Game-Theoretic Analysis of Strategic Behaviour in Networks, Crowds and Classrooms
(2018-01-03)
Over the past decade, the explosive growth of the Internet has led to a surge of interest to understand and predict aggregate behavior of large number of people or agents, particularly when they are connected through an ...
Game Theoretic Models For Social Network Analysis
(2014-08-01)
With increasing demand for social network based activities, it is very important to understand not only the structural properties of social networks but also how social networks form, to better exploit their promise and ...
A Novel Game Theoretic And Voting Mechanism Based Approach For Carbon Emissions Reduction
(2014-08-07)
Global warming is currently a major challenge facing the world. There are widespread ongoing efforts in the form of summits, conferences, etc., to find satisfactory ways of surmounting this challenge. The basic objective ...
Incentive Design for Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing Markets
(2018-05-23)
With the ever-increasing trend in the number of social interactions getting intermediated by technology (the world wide web) as the backdrop, this thesis focuses on the design of mechanisms for online communities (crowds) ...
Design of Quality Assuring Mechanisms with Learning for Strategic Crowds
(2018-05-23)
In this thesis, we address several generic problems concerned with procurement of tasks from a crowd that consists of strategic workers with uncertainty in their qualities. These problems assume importance as the quality ...
Design Of Incentive Compatible Mechanisms For Ticket Allocation In Software Maintenance Services
(2009-05-28)
Software Maintenance is becoming more and more challenging due to rapidly changing customer needs, technologies and need for highly skilled labor. Many problems that existed a decade ago continue to exist or have even ...
A Nash Bargaining Based Bid Optimizer for Sponsored Search Auctions
The on-line advertising market involving displaying of Ads against search results by a search engine is growing at a fast rate. A majority of the search engine companies sell their advertising space through auctions which ...