Heydenreich, Birgit; Mishra, Debasis; Müller, Rudolf; … - Maastricht : METEOR, Maastricht Research School of … - 2008
We study the design of optimal mechanisms in a setting where job-agents compete for being processed by a service provider that can handle one job at a time. Each job has a processing time and incurs a waiting cost. Jobs need to be compensated for waiting. We consider two models, one where only...