Browsing by Author "Waggoner, Bo Franklin"

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    • Acquiring and Aggregating Information from Strategic Sources 

      Waggoner, Bo (2016-07-28)
      This thesis considers, from a theoretical perspective, the design of mechanisms to accomplish the objective described in the title. Two cases of this problem are considered: information as represented by data points in a ...

    • Output Agreement Mechanisms and Common Knowledge 

      Waggoner, Bo Franklin; Chen, Yiling (2014)
      The recent advent of human computation – employing nonexperts to solve problems – has inspired theoretical work in mechanism design for eliciting information when responses cannot be verified.We study a popular practical ...