On the competitiveness of on-line real-time task scheduling
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Dover: An Optimal On-Line Scheduling Algorithm for Overloaded Uniprocessor Real-Time Systems
SIAM Journal on Computing
Online computation and competitive analysis
Online computation and competitive analysis
Speed is as powerful as clairvoyance
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Competitive analysis of incentive compatible on-line auctions
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Algorithms, games, and the internet
STOC '01 Proceedings of the thirty-third annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Incentive-compatible online auctions for digital goods
SODA '02 Proceedings of the thirteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
Online algorithms for market clearing
SODA '02 Proceedings of the thirteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
Distributed algorithmic mechanism design: recent results and future directions
DIALM '02 Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Discrete algorithms and methods for mobile computing and communications
Developments from a June 1996 seminar on Online algorithms: the state of the art
Developments from a June 1996 seminar on Online algorithms: the state of the art
On-line scheduling with tight deadlines
Theoretical Computer Science - Mathematical foundations of computer science
Pricing WiFi at Starbucks: issues in online mechanism design
Proceedings of the 4th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Reducing truth-telling online mechanisms to online optimization
Proceedings of the thirty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Online auctions with re-usable goods
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Online ascending auctions for gradually expiring items
SODA '05 Proceedings of the sixteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
The sequential auction problem on eBay: an empirical analysis and a solution
EC '06 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Learning algorithms for online principal-agent problems (and selling goods online)
ICML '06 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Machine learning
Truthful algorithms for scheduling selfish tasks on parallel machines
Theoretical Computer Science
Mechanism design for multi-agent meeting scheduling
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Bid based scheduler with backfilling for a multiprocessor system
Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Electronic commerce
Group-strategyproof cost sharing mechanisms for makespan and other scheduling problems
Theoretical Computer Science
The Power of Preemption in Economic Online Markets
GECON '08 Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models
Online story scheduling in web advertising
SODA '09 Proceedings of the twentieth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
On the importance of migration for fairness in online grid markets
GRID '08 Proceedings of the 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
Truthful Mechanisms via Greedy Iterative Packing
APPROX '09 / RANDOM '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop and 13th International Workshop on Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques
Automated online mechanism design and prophet inequalities
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Chain: a dynamic double auction framework for matching patient agents
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Cost sharing methods for makespan and completion time scheduling
STACS'07 Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Theoretical aspects of computer science
Mechanism Design for Decentralized Online Machine Scheduling
Operations Research
The Effects of Untruthful Bids on User Utilities and Stability in Computing Markets
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Environment-conscious scheduling of HPC applications on distributed Cloud-oriented data centers
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Mechanism design with uncertain inputs: (to err is human, to forgive divine)
Proceedings of the forty-third annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Online mechanism design for electric vehicle charging
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Decentralization and mechanism design for online machine scheduling
SWAT'06 Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian conference on Algorithm Theory
New constructions of mechanisms with verification
ICALP'06 Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Automata, Languages and Programming - Volume Part I
Bid-Based approach for pricing web service
ODBASE'06/OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE - Volume Part I
A model-based online mechanism with pre-commitment and its application to electric vehicle charging
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Evaluation of Parking Reservation System with Auction Including Electricity Trading
WI-IAT '12 Proceedings of the The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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For the problem of online real-time scheduling of jobs on a single processor, previous work presents matching upper and lower bounds on the competitive ratio that can be achieved by a deterministic algorithm. However, these results only apply to the non-strategic setting in which the jobs are released directly to the algorithm. Motivated by emerging areas such as grid computing, we instead consider this problem in an economic setting, in which each job is released to a separate, self-interested agent. The agent can then delay releasing the job to the algorithm, inflate its length, and declare an arbitrary value and deadline for the job, while the center determines not only the schedule, but the payment of each agent. For the resulting mechanism design problem (in which we also slightly strengthen an assumption from the non-strategic setting), we present a mechanism that addresses each incentive issue, while only increasing the competitive ratio by one. We then show a matching lower bound for deterministic mechanisms that never pay the agents.