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Contest Theory: Incentive Mechanisms and Ranking Methods
Contributor(s): Vojnovic, Milan (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107033136     ISBN-13: 9781107033139
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $81.69  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Mathematics | Game Theory
- Computers | Programming - Algorithms
Dewey: 519.3
LCCN: 2015027578
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 7.11" W x 10.36" L (3.25 lbs) 730 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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Contests are prevalent in many areas, including sports, rent seeking, patent races, innovation inducement, labor markets, scientific projects, crowdsourcing and other online services, and allocation of computer system resources. This book provides unified, comprehensive coverage of contest theory as developed in economics, computer science, and statistics, with a focus on online services applications, allowing professionals, researchers and students to learn about the underlying theoretical principles and to test them in practice. The book sets contest design in a game-theoretic framework that can be used to model a wide-range of problems and efficiency measures such as total and individual output and social welfare, and offers insight into how the structure of prizes relates to desired contest design objectives. Methods for rating the skills and ranking of players are presented, as are proportional allocation and similar allocation mechanisms, simultaneous contests, sharing utility of productive activities, sequential contests, and tournaments.

Contributor Bio(s): Vojnovi, Milan: - Milan Vojnovi is a researcher with Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is also an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge, with a courtesy appointment with the Statistical Laboratory. He obtained a Ph.D. in technical sciences from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, with a thesis on resource allocation problems in internet networks. He has won several awards for his work, including the 2005 ERCIM Cor Baayen award and the 2010 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Researcher Award.
 
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