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Electronic Dictionaries - from Publisher Data to a Distribution Server: the DicoPro, DicoEast and RERO Projects

This article describes a set of initiatives in the domain if electronic dictionary distribution. Their basis is the DicoPro server, which enables secure access to dictionary data on a server. In the DicoEast and RERO projects, the goal is to acquire high-quality publisher data, convert it into numeric format, and provide access to dictionary entries for the participating institutions. We analyz...

Undominated Groves Mechanisms

The family of Groves mechanisms, which includes the well-known VCGmechanism (also known as the Clarke mechanism), is a family of efficient and strategy-proof mechanisms. Unfortunately, the Groves mechanisms are generally not budget balanced. That is, under such mechanisms, payments may flow into or out of the system of the agents, resulting in deficits or reduced utilities for the agents. We co...

Research Statement : Daniel Groves

In the last few years, my research has been in geometric group theory, which attempts to understand groups via the spaces upon which they act. The last two decades have seen tremendous progress in our understanding of infinite discrete groups, and many longstanding open problems have been solved using geometric methods. I am particularly interested in coarse negative and non-positive curvature,...

Welfare Undominated Groves Mechanisms

A common objective in mechanism design is to choose the outcome (for example, allocation of resources) that maximizes the sum of the agents’ valuations, without introducing incentives for agents to misreport their preferences. The class of Groves mechanisms achieves this; however, these mechanisms require the agents to make payments, thereby reducing the agents’ total welfare. In this paper we ...

Ernest William Hey Groves