How truthful are water accounting data?

Accounting for psychological problems: How user-friendly are psychosocial formulations?

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How to manipulate truthful prior-dependent mechanisms?

In the standard formulation of mechanism design, a key assumption is that the designer has reliable information and technology to determine a prior distribution over types of the agents. In the meanwhile, as pointed out by the Wilson’s Principle, a mechanism should reply as little as possible on the accuracy of prior type distribution. In this paper, we put forward a simple model to formalize a...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

How Protective Are Synthetic Data?

This short paper provides a synthesis of the statistical disclosure limitation and computer science data privacy approaches to measuring the confidentiality protections provided by fully synthetic data. Since all elements of the data records in the release file derived from fully synthetic data are sampled from an appropriate probability distribution, they do not represent “real data,” but ther...

Towards Truthful Feedback in P2P Data Structures

Peer-to-Peer data structures (P2P data structures) let a large number of anonymous peers share the data-management workload. A common assumption behind such systems is that peers behave cooperatively. But as with many distributed systems where participation is voluntary, and the participants are not clearly observable, unreliable behavior is the dominant strategy. This calls for reputation syst...