Paul Resnick's Occasional MusingsPaul Resnick's Occasional Musings - LiveJournal.comconvincing people about optimal strategies- May 2, 2005 In some of the applied game theoretic mechanism design work that I do, and that I hear other people present, I've noticed a recurring concern. In some mechanism (for auctions, for example), the designer of the mechanism may be able to prove that some strategy (say, honest revelation of one's preferences) is part of an equilibrium (an optimal strategy given some assumption about others' strategies), or is even a dominant strategy (an optimal strategy no matter what everyone else does). But it...http://presnick.livejournal.com/14038.html |