Tractable (Simple) Contests
Authors: Priel Levy, David Sarne, Yonatan Aumann
IJCAI 2018 | Conference PDF | Archive PDF | Plain Text | LLM Run Details
| Reproducibility Variable | Result | LLM Response |
|---|---|---|
| Research Type | Experimental | The theoretical analysis is complemented by comprehensive experiments with people over Amazon Mechanical Turk. Here, we find that the modified mechanism offers great benefit for the principal, both in terms of an increased over-participation in the contest (compared to theoretical expectations) and increased average profit. ... Finally, we report the results of applying the new mechanism with people, using a set of experiments carried out in Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). |
| Researcher Affiliation | Academia | Priel Levy, David Sarne and Yonatan Aumann Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel priel.levy@live.biu.ac.il, sarned@cs.biu.ac.il, aumann@cs.biu.ac.il |
| Pseudocode | Yes | Algorithm 1 Extracting Critical Values for SQ(π) Input: G the game tree associated with SQ(π) Output: C list of all critical values. |
| Open Source Code | No | The paper states 'The framework was developed as a java-script web-based game' but does not provide a link or explicit statement about the availability of the source code. |
| Open Datasets | No | The experiments were conducted using human participants via Amazon Mechanical Turk, generating data through their interactions rather than using a pre-existing, publicly available dataset. No specific link or citation to a public dataset is provided. |
| Dataset Splits | No | The paper describes an experimental design with human participants (Amazon Mechanical Turk) and different 'experimental treatments' but does not mention specific training, validation, or test dataset splits in the context of model evaluation. |
| Hardware Specification | No | The paper describes experiments conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk and using a 'java-script web-based game' but does not provide any specific hardware details such as GPU/CPU models, memory, or processor types used for running these experiments or hosting the game. |
| Software Dependencies | No | The paper mentions 'The framework was developed as a java-script web-based game' but does not provide specific software dependencies with version numbers (e.g., JavaScript framework versions, browser compatibility, specific libraries). |
| Experiment Setup | Yes | The number of contestants in each was k = 3. The participation cost was set to be constant (arbitrarily set to c = 5c) to provide a similar baseline to all treatments. When setting the prize M we aimed for a varied set of values within the interval of interest, 5c 15c (where the lower end is the point where the prize offered covers only one contestant s participation cost, and the upper value is where even if all three participate the prize fully covers their participation costs), hence choosing M = 6c, M = 8c, M = 11c. |