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07/20/2023
Fair Allocation of goods and chores – Tutorial and Survey of Recent Results
Fair resource allocation is an important problem in many real-world scen...
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05/22/2023
Exploring User Perspectives on ChatGPT: Applications, Perceptions, and Implications for AI-Integrated Education
Understanding user perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in educa...
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02/24/2023
A Novel Demand Response Model and Method for Peak Reduction in Smart Grids – PowerTAC
One of the widely used peak reduction methods in smart grids is demand r...
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02/11/2023
Your Favorite Gameplay Speaks Volumes about You: Predicting User Behavior and Hexad Type
In recent years, the gamification research community has widely and freq...
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02/08/2023
AVeCQ: Anonymous Verifiable Crowdsourcing with Worker Qualities
In crowdsourcing systems, requesters publish tasks, and interested worke...
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11/25/2022
Combinatorial Civic Crowdfunding with Budgeted Agents: Welfare Optimality at Equilibrium and Optimal Deviation
Civic Crowdfunding (CC) uses the “power of the crowd” to garner contribu...
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10/13/2022
PUPoW: A framework for designing blockchains with practically-useful-proof-of-work vanitycoin
Bitcoin is the first of its kind, a truly decentralized and anonymous cr...
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09/21/2022
Interlude: Balancing Chaos And Harmony For Fair and Fast Blockchains
Blockchains lie at the heart of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that ...
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06/27/2022
Differentially Private Federated Combinatorial Bandits with Constraints
There is a rapid increase in the cooperative learning paradigm in online...
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06/13/2022
Coordinating Monetary Contributions in Participatory Budgeting
We formalize a framework for coordinating the funding of projects and sh...
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03/21/2022
Tiramisu: Layering Consensus Protocols for Scalable and Secure Blockchains
Cryptocurrencies are poised to revolutionize the modern economy by democ...
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02/25/2022
Individual Fairness in Feature-Based Pricing for Monopoly Markets
We study fairness in the context of feature-based price discrimination i...
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02/08/2022
Budgeted Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits
We consider a budgeted combinatorial multi-armed bandit setting where, i...
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01/25/2022
Multi-unit Double Auctions: Equilibrium Analysis and Bidding Strategy using DDPG in Smart-grids
Periodic double auctions (PDA) have applications in many areas such as i...
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12/20/2021
REFORM: Reputation Based Fair and Temporal Reward Framework for Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is an effective method to collect data by employing distri...
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12/14/2021
Mechanism Design without Money for Fair Allocations
Fairness is well studied in the context of resource allocation. Research...
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12/10/2021
EEF1-NN: Efficient and EF1 allocations through Neural Networks
Neural networks have shown state-of-the-art performance in designing auc...
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09/06/2021
Fair Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Face Data
We consider the problem of achieving fair classification in Federated Le...
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08/29/2021
Fair and Efficient Resource Allocation with Externalities
In resource allocation, it is common to assume that agents have a utilit...
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08/23/2021
Federated Learning Meets Fairness and Differential Privacy
Deep learning's unprecedented success raises several ethical concerns ra...
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06/03/2021
Sleeping Combinatorial Bandits
In this paper, we study an interesting combination of sleeping and combi...
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02/21/2021
FASTEN: Fair and Secure Distributed Voting Using Smart Contracts
Electing democratic representatives via voting has been a common mechani...
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02/09/2021
A Multi-Arm Bandit Approach To Subset Selection Under Constraints
We explore the class of problems where a central planner needs to select...
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02/08/2021
We might walk together, but I run faster: Network Fairness and Scalability in Blockchains
Blockchain-based Distributed Ledgers (DLs) promise to transform the exis...
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01/13/2021
Towards Mobile Distributed Ledgers
Advances in mobile computing have paved the way for new types of distrib...
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05/07/2020
QuickSync: A Quickly Synchronizing PoS-Based Blockchain Protocol
To implement a blockchain, we need a blockchain protocol for all the nod...
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04/15/2020
Effect of Input Noise Dimension in GANs
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are by far the most successful ge...
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03/02/2020
BitcoinF: Achieving Fairness for Bitcoin in Transaction-Fee-Only Model
A blockchain, such as Bitcoin, is an append-only, secure, transparent, d...
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02/26/2020
Designing Truthful Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits based Sponsored Search Auctions
For sponsored search auctions, we consider contextual multi-armed bandit...
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01/24/2020
Ballooning Multi-Armed Bandits
In this paper, we introduce Ballooning Multi-Armed Bandits (BL-MAB), a n...
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11/19/2019
Bidding in Smart Grid PDAs: Theory, Analysis and Strategy (Extended Version)
Periodic Double Auctions (PDAs) are commonly used in the real world for ...
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10/04/2019
Introduction to Concentration Inequalities
In this report, we aim to exemplify concentration inequalities and provi...
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06/15/2019
A Practical Solution to Yao's Millionaires' Problem and Its Application in Designing Secure Combinatorial Auction
The emergence of e-commerce and e-voting platforms has resulted in the r...
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06/10/2019
FaRM: Fair Reward Mechanism for Information Aggregation in Spontaneous Localized Settings (Extended Version)
Although peer prediction markets are widely used in crowdsourcing to agg...
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05/27/2019
Civic Crowdfunding for Agents with Negative Valuations and Agents with Asymmetric Beliefs
In the last decade, civic crowdfunding has proved to be effective in gen...
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11/01/2018
A Neural Network Framework for Fair Classifier
Machine learning models are extensively being used in decision making, e...
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10/27/2018
Designing Refund Bonus Schemes for Provision Point Mechanism in Civic Crowdfunding
Civic crowdfunding is a practice with which interested players can raise...
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08/13/2018
Privacy Preserving and Cost Optimal Mobile Crowdsensing using Smart Contracts on Blockchain
The popularity and applicability of mobile crowdsensing applications are...
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03/31/2018
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): What it can generate and What it cannot?
Why are Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) so popular? What is the p...
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01/26/2018
