So I’ve fallen to the Blogging trend too.
Will try to post on things related to the Algorithmic Game Theory field.
March 15, 2009 by algorithmicgametheory
So I’ve fallen to the Blogging trend too.
Will try to post on things related to the Algorithmic Game Theory field.
Congratulations, Noam!
Welcome!
Good luck!
Noam, welcome. I am surprised that the link to the algorithmic game theory goes to a page selling the book, while the book is available for free in the electronic format.
Sometimes lessons learned in our research dominates our primary duty as a research scientists. (Pun intended).
Here is the book if anybody wants it:
Click to access Nisan_Non-printable.pdf
(Those who are curious to know, how the existance of this book is itself an application of algorithmic game-theory, here is a post: http://weblog.fortnow.com/2006/01/free-electronic-editions-of-new.html)
Thanks to all.
Kamal: the “about” page already has the link to the book….
Now I can ask a question I’ve always been wondering about: is there a way to design tamper proof ranking schemes ? Google keeps their ranking scheme for pages secret, because they’re afraid of users gaming the system (pun not intended!). There are other settings (Digg etc) where the ranking provides value, but the system designers need to play some kind of game with the adversary to prevent the system from being corrupted.
Does AGT provide any kind of answer for this problem ? I was browsing the book, but didn’t find anything directly related.