Self-financed wagering mechanisms for forecasting

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 170-179

  Lambert, Nicolas S ^a   Langford, John ^b   Wortman, Jennifer ^c   Chen, Yiling ^b   Reeves, Daniel ^b   Shoham, Yoav ^a   Pennock, David M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Group forecasting; Mechanism design; Prediction markets

Indexed keywords

MECHANISM DESIGN; PARAMETER GENERALIZATION; PREDICTION MARKETS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FORECASTING;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 58849090804     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1386790.1386820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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