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dc.contributor.author	Jain, Shaili
dc.contributor.author	Parkes, David C.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-11-28T19:37:47Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.identifier.citation	Jain, Shaili, and David C. Parkes. 2011. Combinatorial agency of threshold functions. In Proceedings of the EC'11 12th Annual ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content: June 5, 2011, San Jose, CA. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9962003
dc.description.abstract	In this paper, we study the combinatorial agency problem introduced by Babaioff, Feldman and Nisan and resolve some open questions posed in their original paper. Our results include a characterization of the transition behavior for the class of threshold functions. This result confirms a conjecture of, and generalizes their results for the transition behavior for the OR technology and the AND technology. In addition to establishing a (tight) bound of 2 on the social Price of Unaccountability (POU) for the OR technology for the general case of n > 2 agents (the initial paper established this for n = 2, an extended version establishes a bound of 2.5 for the general case), we establish that the POU is unbounded for all other threshold functions (the initial paper established this only for the case of AND technology). We also obtain a characterization result for certain compositions of anonymous technologies and establish an unbounded POU for these cases.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Engineering and Applied Sciences	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Association for Computing Machinery	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	http://yiling.seas.harvard.edu/sc2011/index.html	en_US
dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.yiling.seas.harvard.edu/sc2011/Jain.pdf	en_US
dash.license	OAP
dc.title	Combinatorial Agency of Threshold Functions	en_US
dc.type	Conference Paper	en_US
dc.description.version	Author's Original	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Parkes, David C.
dc.date.available	2012-11-28T19:37:47Z

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