Publication Topics

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Bribery in Social Choice

• Piotr Faliszewski, Rica Gonen, Martin Koutecky, and Nimrod Talmon:
  Opinion Diffusion and Campaining on Social Graphs
  Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), July 2018.

Advertising Markets

• Moran Feldman, Gonen Frim and Rica Gonen:
  Multi-sided Advertising Markets: Dynamic Mechanisms and Incremental User Compensations (the link points to an older version with a different title and a subset of the authors)
  Proceedings of the 9^th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), October 2018, to appear.
• Moran Feldman, and Rica Gonen:
  Removal and Threshold Pricing: Truthful Two-sided Markets with Multi-dimensional Participants (the link points to an older version with a different title)
  Proceedings of the 11^th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), September 2018, pages 163-175.
• Rica Gonen:
  Databroker System: A New Online Advertising System That Keeps Users Engage While Preserving Their Privacy
  Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS), May 2017, pages 1787-1789.

Market Mechanisms

• Rica Gonen and Ozi Egri:
  Two-sided Markets:  Mapping Social Welfare to Gain from Trade
  Optimization in Multiagent Systems (OptMAS-18) in the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), July 2018.
• Rica Gonen and Ozi Egri:
  DYCOM: A Dynamic Truthful Balanced Double-sided Combinatorial Market
  Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS), May 2017, pages 1556-1558.
• Rica Gonen Daphna Raban, and Maya Mazor:
  Increased Efficiency Through Pricing in Online Labor Markets
  Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 15(1), 58-76, 2014.
• Yiling Chen, Stanko Dimitrov, Rahul Sami, Daniel Reeves, David Pennock, Robin Hanson, Lance Fortnow, and Rica Gonen:
  Gaming Predicition Markets: Equilibrium Strategies with a Market Maker
  Algorithmica Journal, 58(4), 930-969 2010.
• M. Gonen, Rica Gonen and Elan Pavlov:
  Characterizing Truthful Market Design
  Proceedings of the 3th International Wokshop
  On Internet And Network Economics (WINE), December 2007, pages 590-595.
• M. Gonen, Rica Gonen and Elan Pavlov:
  Generalized Trade Reduction Mechanisms
  Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC), June 2007, pages 20-29.
• Rica Gonen:
  Negotiation-Rage Mechanisms: Coalition Resistant Markets
  Proceedings of the 12th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ALG-ESA), September 2004, pages 383-394.
• Yair Bartal, Rica Gonen and Pierfrancesco La Mura:
  Negotitaion-Range Mechanisms: Exploring the Limits of Truthful Efficient Markets
  Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC), May 2004, pages 1-8.
• Yiling Chen, Daniel Reeves, David Pennock, Robin Hanson, and Rica Gonen:
  Bluffing and Strategic Reticence in Prediction Markets
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), December 2007, pages 70-81.

Combinatorial Auctions

• Rica Gonen and Anat Lerner:
  Characterizing Incentive Compatible, Pareto Optimal and Sufficiently Anonymous Constrained Combinatorial Mechanisms – Two Players Case
  in Computability – the Journal of the Association CIE, 6(2) 165-181 2017.
• Anat Lerner and Rica Gonen:
  Efficient Constraint Combinatorial Auctions
  in International Game Theory Review, 18(2) 2016
• Niv Buchbinder and Rica Gonen:
  Incentive Compatible Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions: A Primal Dual Approach
  in Algorithmica Journal, 72(1), 167-190 2015
• Anat Lerner and Rica Gonen:
  Autocratic Mechanisms: A Form of Dictatorship in Constrained Combinatorial Auctions
  in International Game Theory Review, 17(4), 1-25 2015
• Anat Lerner and Rica Gonen:
  Characterizing the Incentive Compatible and Pareto Optimal Efficiency Space for Two Players, k Items, Public Budget and Quasilinear Utilities
  in Games Journal, 5(2), 97-115, 2014
• Rica Gonen and Anat Lerner:
  Two-Outcome Dictatorial Mechanism in Constrained Combinatorial Auctions
  in Economics Bulletin Journal, 34(2), 810-818, 2014
• Rica Gonen and Anat Lerner:
  The Incompatibility of Pareto Optimality and Dominant-Strategy Incentive Compatibility in Sufficiently-Anonymous Budget-Constrained Quasilinear Settings
  in Games Journal, 4, 690-710, 2013
• Anat Lerner and Rica Gonen:
  Dictatorial Mechanisms in Constrained Combinatorial Auctions
  The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 13(1) 2013
• Yair Bartal, Rica Gonen and Noam Nisan:
  Incentive Compatible Multy-Unit Combinatorial Auctions
  Proceedings of the 9th Conference of Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK), June 2003, pages 72-87
• Rica Gonen Daniel Lehmann:
  Linear Programing Helps Solve Large Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions
  Proceedings of INFORMS, November 2001
• Rica Gonen Daniel Lehmann:
  Optimal Solutions for Multi-unit Combinatorial Auctions: Branch and Bound Heristics
  Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC), October 2000

Ad Auctions

• Nitza Geri and Rica Gonen:
  Reducing Free Exposure in Sponsored Search Auctions
  Proceedings of the 5th Israel Association for Information Systems Conference (ILAIS), July 2011, pages 22-25
• Nitza Geri and Rica Gonen:
  Managing Heterogeneity in Search-Advertisers’ Objectives
  Proceedings of the 5th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems  (MCIS), 2010.
• Rica Gonen and Elan Pavlov:
  Adaptive Incentive-Compatible Sponsored Search Auction
  Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, January 2009, pages 303-316.
• Rica Gonen and Sergei Vassilvitskii:
  Sponsored Search Auctions with Reserve Prices: Going Beyond Separability
  Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), December 2008, pages 597-608.
• Rica Gonen:
  On the Hardness of Truthful Online Auctions with Multidimensional Constraints
  Proceedings of the 4th Computability in Europe; Logic and Theory of Algorithms (CiE), June 2008, pages 221-230.
• Rica Gonen and Elan Pavlov:
  An Adaptive Sponsored search Mechanism delta-Gain Truthful in Valuation, Time, and Budget
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), December 2007, pages 341-346.
• Rica Gonen:
  Characterizing Optimal Syndicated Sponsored Search Market Design
  Ad Auctions, in the 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC), July 2009.
• Rica Gonen and Elan Pavlov:
An Incentive-Compatible Multi-Armed Bandit Mechanism
Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPT Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (ACM-PODC), August 2007, pages 362-363.

Rational Cryptography

• Rica Gonen and Tamir Tassa:
  Privacy Preserving Computational for Viral Marketing: The Case of Rational Players
  Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), August 2016, pages 677-686.
• Ittai Abraham, Dany Dolev, Rica Gonen and Joe Halpern:
  Distributed Computing Meets Game Theory: Robust Mechanisms for Rational Secret Sharing and Multiparty Computation
  Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Principle of Distributed Computing (ACM-PODC), July 2006, pages 53-62.

Thesis

• Non-VCG Schemes and Coalition Resistant Mechanisms. Advisor: Prof Yair Bartal.
  Ph.D. Thesis. Computer Science Department, The Hebrew University, Israel, 2006.
• Optimal Solutions for Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions: Branch and Bound Heuristics. Advisor: Prof. Daniel Lehmann
  M.Sc. Thesis. Computer Science Department, The Hebrew University, Israel, 2001.