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Internet and Network Economics 5th International Workshop, WINE 2009 Rome, Italy, December 14-18, 2009 Proceedings 1 3 VolumeEditor StefanoLeonardi SapienzaUniversityofRome DepartmentofInformationandSystems ViaAriosto25,00185Roma,Italy E-mail:[email protected] LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2009939834 CRSubjectClassification(1998):H.4,K.4.4,J.1,J.3,H.3,H.2,G.1.2 LNCSSublibrary:SL3–InformationSystemsandApplication,incl.Internet/Web andHCI ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN-10 3-642-10840-7SpringerBerlinHeidelbergNewYork ISBN-13 978-3-642-10840-2SpringerBerlinHeidelbergNewYork Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.Allrightsarereserved,whetherthewholeorpartofthematerialis concerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,re-useofillustrations,recitation,broadcasting, reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherway,andstorageindatabanks.Duplicationofthispublication orpartsthereofispermittedonlyundertheprovisionsoftheGermanCopyrightLawofSeptember9,1965, initscurrentversion,andpermissionforusemustalwaysbeobtainedfromSpringer.Violationsareliable toprosecutionundertheGermanCopyrightLaw. springer.com ©Springer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2009 PrintedinGermany Typesetting:Camera-readybyauthor,dataconversionbyScientificPublishingServices,Chennai,India Printedonacid-freepaper SPIN:12809240 06/3180 543210 Preface ThisvolumecontainsthepaperspresentedatWINE2009:the5thInternational Workshop on Internet and Network Economics held December 14–18, 2009, in Rome,attheDepartmentofComputerandSystemSciences,SapienzaUniversity of Rome. Overthe pastdecadetherehasbeengrowinginteractionbetweenresearchers intheoreticalcomputer science,networkingandsecurity,economics,mathemat- ics, sociology, and management sciences devoted to the analysis of problems arising in the Internet and the worldwide web. The Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE) is an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and results arising in these varied fields. There were 142 submissions to the workshopincluding regularandshortpa- pers.Allsubmissionswererigorouslypeerreviewedandevaluatedonthebasisof thequalityoftheircontribution,originality,soundness,andsignificance.Almost all submissions were reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. The committee decided to accept 34 regular papers and 29 short papers. The Best Student Paper award sponsored by Google Inc. was given to Saeed Alaei andAzarakhshMalekianforthepaper“AnAnalysisofTroubledAssetsReverse Auction.” The programalso included three invited talks by S. Muthukrishnan (Google Inc.andRutgersUniversity),H.PeytonYoung(OxfordandJohnsHopkinsUni- versity)andEvaTardos(CornellUnversity).Threetutorialswerealsoofferedon the days before the workshop, from Andrei Broder (Yahoo! Research) on Com- putational Advertising, Nikhil Devanur and Kamal Jain (Microsoft Research) onComputationalIssuesinMarketEquilibria,andTimRoughgarden(Stanford University) on Bayesian and Worst-Case Revenue Maximization. We would like to thank Google Inc., Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni and Sapienza University of Rome for the generous financial support to WINE 2009. We would also like to thank the Department of Computer and System Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, for hosting the event. Vincenzo Bonifaci and Piotr Sankowski offered their precious help for the review process, the conference website and the workshop proceedings. We also acknowldegeEasychair,a fantastic, robust, easy to use, freely available system for managing the work of the Program Committee and the production of workshop proceedings. October 2009 Stefano Leonardi Conference Organization Program Committee Chair Stefano Leonardi Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Program Committee Moshe Babaioff Microsoft Research Patrick Briest Cornell University, USA Andrei Broder Yahoo! Research Shuchi Chawla Wisconsin University, USA Ning Chen Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity, Singapore Bruno Codenotti National Research Council, Italy Artur Czumaj Warwick University, UK Xiaotie Deng City University of Hong Kong Amos Fiat Tel-Aviv University, Israel Michele Flammini L’Aquila University, Italy Martin Gairing University of California at Berkeley, USA Arpita Ghosh Yahoo! Research Nicole Immorlica Northwestern University, USA Matthew Jackson Stanford University, USA Kamal Jain Microsoft Research Ehud Kalai Northwestern University, USA Piotr Krysta Liverpool University, UK Ron Lavi The Technion, Israel Aranyak Mehta Google Inc. Paul Milgrom Stanford University, USA S. Muthukrishnan Google Inc. and Rutgers University, USA Rudolf Mu¨ller Maastricht University, The Netherlands Tim Roughgarden Stanford University, USA Guido Schaefer CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Paul Spirakis CTI, Patras,Greece Sergei Vassilvitskii Yahoo! Research Berthold Voecking RWTH Aachen University, The Netherlands Yinyu Ye Stanford University, USA Local Organization Giorgio Ausiello Vincenzo Bonifaci Stefano Leonardi (Chair) Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela Piotr Sankowski VIII Organization External Reviewers Abraham, Ittai Lachish, Oded Augustine, John Lahaie, Sebastien Aziz, Haris Lambert, Nicolas Berenbrink, Petra Leyton-Brown, Kevin Bernstein, Shai Ligett, Katrina Bilo’, Vittorio Lin, Genie Bonifaci, Vincenzo Lu, Pinyan Bouveret, Sylvain Lucier, Brendan Brenner, Janina Mahini, Hamid Bu, Tian-Ming Melideo, Giovanna Buchbinder, Niv Mobius, Markus Buchbinder, Niv Monaco, Gianpiero Budinich, Michele Morgan, John Carlsson, John Moscardelli, Luca Cavallo, Ruggiero Nadav, Uri Cesa-Bianchi, Nicolo Ohseto, Shinji Chen, Ho-Lin Pap, Gyula Chen, Xi Piliouras, George Chen, Yiling Procaccia, Ariel Christodoulou, Giorgos Qi, Qi Codenotti, Paolo Raecke, Harry Dai, Decheng Rothe, Joerg Daskalakis, Costis R¨oglin, Heiko Delage, Erick Saia, Jared Dhangwatnotai, Peerapong Salek, Mahyar Du, Ye Sankowski, Piotr Dumrauf, Dominic Sauerwald, Thomas Eberhart, Robert Schapira, Michael Englert, Matthias Schoppmann, Florian Fanelli, Angelo Sharma, Aneesh Feldman, Michal Singer, Yaron Feldmann, Rainer Slivkins, Aleksandrs Fortnow, Lance So, Anthony Man-Cho Fu, Hu Stiller, Sebastian Garg, Dinesh Sundararajan, Mukund Goldberg, Paul Telelis, Orestis Gravin, Nikolai Tscheuschner, Tobias Guo, Mingyu Vredeveld, Tjark Harks, Tobias Wang, Zizhuo Hoefer, Martin Xia, Lirong Hua, Xia Yu, Changyuan Huo, Yumei Zhang, Jie Kanellopoulos, Panagiotis Zhang, Qin Kintali, Shiva Zhao, Hairong Table of Contents Invited Talks Ad Exchanges:Research Issues .................................... 1 S. Muthukrishnan Adaptive Learning in Systems of Interacting Agents .................. 13 H. Peyton Young Quantifying Outcomes in Games (Abstract) ......................... 17 E´va Tardos Regular Papers Competitive Routing over Time.................................... 18 Martin Hoefer, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Heiko Ro¨glin, and Shang-Hua Teng On 2-Player Randomized Mechanisms for Scheduling ................. 30 Pinyan Lu On Stackelberg Pricing with Computationally Bounded Consumers..... 42 Patrick Briest, Martin Hoefer, Luciano Guala`, and Carmine Ventre On Best Response Dynamics in Weighted Congestion Games with Polynomial Delays ............................................... 55 Angelo Fanelli and Luca Moscardelli Parametric Packing of Selfish Items and the Subset Sum Algorithm .... 67 Leah Epstein, Elena Kleiman, and Julia´n Mestre An Online Multi-unit Auction with Improved Competitive Ratio....... 79 Sourav Chakraborty and Nikhil Devanur Prediction Mechanisms That Do Not Incentivize Undesirable Actions... 89 Peng Shi, Vincent Conitzer, and Mingyu Guo Pricing Strategies for Viral Marketing on Social Networks............. 101 David Arthur, Rajeev Motwani, Aneesh Sharma, and Ying Xu Consistent Continuous Trust-Based Recommendation Systems ......... 113 Ola Rozenfeld and Moshe Tennenholtz X Table of Contents The Stackelberg Minimum Spanning Tree Game on Planar and Bounded-Treewidth Graphs ....................................... 125 Jean Cardinal, Erik D. Demaine, Samuel Fiorini, Gwena¨el Joret, Ilan Newman, and Oren Weimann Tighter Bounds for Facility Games ................................. 137 Pinyan Lu, Yajun Wang, and Yuan Zhou Degrees of Guaranteed Envy-Freeness in Finite Bounded Cake-Cutting Protocols ....................................................... 149 Claudia Lindner and Jo¨rg Rothe Approximate Pure Nash Equilibria via Lova´sz Local Lemma .......... 160 Th`anh Nguyen and E´va Tardos Externalities in Keyword Auctions: An Empirical and Theoretical Assessment...................................................... 172 Renato Gomes, Nicole Immorlica, and Evangelos Markakis Covering Games: Approximation through Non-cooperation ........... 184 Martin Gairing Contract Auctions for Sponsored Search ............................ 196 Sharad Goel, S´ebastien Lahaie, and Sergei Vassilvitskii Bidding for Representative Allocations for Display Advertising......... 208 Arpita Ghosh, Preston McAfee, Kishore Papineni, and Sergei Vassilvitskii Social Networks and Stable Matchings in the Job Market ............. 220 Esteban Arcaute and Sergei Vassilvitskii Maximizing the Minimum Load: The Cost of Selfishness .............. 232 Leah Epstein, Elena Kleiman, and Rob van Stee Competitive Repeated Allocation without Payments.................. 244 Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer, and Daniel M. Reeves Pseudonyms in Cost-Sharing Games ............................... 256 Paolo Penna, Florian Schoppmann, Riccardo Silvestri, and Peter Widmayer Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies........................................... 268 Yuval Emek and Michal Feldman Nash Equilibria for Voronoi Games on Transitive Graphs ............. 280 Rainer Feldmann, Marios Mavronicolas, and Burkhard Monien Table of Contents XI Selfish Scheduling with Setup Times................................ 292 Laurent Gourv`es, J´eroˆme Monnot, and Orestis A. Telelis Computational Aspects of Multimarket Price Wars................... 304 Nithum Thain and Adrian Vetta The Impact of Social Ignorance on Weighted Congestion Games ....... 316 Dimitris Fotakis, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Alexis C. Kaporis, and Paul G. Spirakis The Complexity of Models of International Trade .................... 328 Christopher A. Wilkens The Geometry of Truthfulness ..................................... 340 Angelina Vidali Optimal Incentives for Participation with Type-Dependent Externalities .................................................... 351 Michal Feldman, Ran Tessler, and Yoav Wilf Nash Dynamics in Congestion Games with Similar Resources.......... 362 Anand Bhalgat, Tanmoy Chakraborty, and Sanjeev Khanna Online Ad Assignment with Free Disposal........................... 374 Jon Feldman, Nitish Korula, Vahab Mirrokni, S. Muthukrishnan, and Martin Pa´l Truthful and Quality Conscious Query Incentive Networks ............ 386 Devansh Dikshit and Narahari Yadati An Analysis of Troubled Assets Reverse Auction ..................... 398 Saeed Alaei and Azarakhsh Malekian Direction Preserving Zero Point Computing and Applications: (Extended Abstract) ............................................. 410 Xiaotie Deng, Qi Qi, and Jie Zhang Short Papers Continuity Properties of Equilibria in Some Fisher and Arrow-Debreu Market Models .................................................. 422 Vijay V. Vazirani and Lei Wang Route Distribution Incentives...................................... 430 Joud Khoury, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Kate Krause, and Jorge Crichigno Wiretapping a Hidden Network.................................... 438 Haris Aziz, Oded Lachish, Mike Paterson, and Rahul Savani
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