@inproceedings{5e6cc1d376f9457ba10826ff20c76088,
title = "Simple contest enhancers",
abstract = "Contests are an important mechanism for eliciting effort in a multi-agent setting. In this paper we introduce and analyze the benefit in two enhancers to contest design within the framework of simple contests: (a) changing the execution of the contest from parallel to sequential; and (b) adding some ambiguity to the way performance is measured. While intuitively such interventions may seem to hinder participation and performance, we show that for a large class of contest settings they actually improve the expected profit of the contest organizer. The paper presents a formal game-theoretic analysis of the different enhanced mechanisms, enabling market designers and contest organizers the means for extracting the equilibrium in each in order to properly use the methods in the contests they run.",
author = "Priel Levy and David Sarne and Michal Habani",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.; 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, WI-IAT 2020 ; Conference date: 14-12-2020 Through 17-12-2020",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1109/wiiat50758.2020.00069",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
series = "Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, WI-IAT 2020",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "463--469",
editor = "Jing He and Hemant Purohit and Guangyan Huang and Xiaoying Gao and Ke Deng",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, WI-IAT 2020",
address = "الولايات المتّحدة",
}