We design a dynamic rate scheduling policy of Markov type by using the solution (a social optimal Nash equilibrium point) to a utility-maximization problem over a randomly evolving capacity set for a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper provides necessary and sufficient preference conditions for average utility maximization over sequences of variable length. We ...

Lundy, Taylor, Alexander Wei, Hu Fu, Scott Duke Kominers, and Kevin Leyton-Brown. "Allocation for Social Good: Auditing Mechanisms for Utility Maximization." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on ...

Several weeks ago, an article ran in Inside Higher Ed about the interest of many graduate students in jobs that don’t include a lot of pressure to publish. Instead many were interested in jobs that ...

Elementary economics tells us that a good decision is to maximize utility. Utility refers to how desirable a task or choice is for an individual. Maximizers are people who strive to get the very best ...