Simple stimuli, simple strategies

Simple stimuli, simple strategies.

X Simple Auctions with Simple Strategies

We introduce single-bid auctions as a new format for combinatorial auctions. In single-bid auctions, each bidder submits a single real-valued bid for the right to buy items at a fixed price. Contrary to other simple auction formats, such as simultaneous or sequential single-item auctions, bidders can implement no-regret learning strategies for single-bid auctions in polynomial time. Price of an...

Some Simple Pirate Strategies

Illegal copies of digital objects (images, texts, movies, music etc.) are easy to make. With the use of Internet more and more products are distributed in its digital form. To prevent illegal redistribution we propose to uniquely mark each distributed copy with a digital fingerprint. This fingerprint has to be part of the information to prevent it from being easily removed. This method is discu...

Absolute identification with simple and complex stimuli.

It is well known that people can perfectly identify only a handful of distinct unidimensional stimuli, such as line lengths, but can identify thousands of complex stimuli, such as letters and words. This result is consistent with capacity limits in identifying unidimensional stimuli but not complex stimuli. The experiments reported here tested this theoretical dissociation using Luce's (1963) S...

Optimal Simple Strategies for Persuasion

Argument dialogues provide a principled way of structuring rational interactions between participants (be they human or machine), each arguing over the validity of certain claims, with each agent aiming for an outcome that achieves their dialogue goal (e.g., to persuade the other participant to accept their point of view [8], or to reach agreement on an action to perform [2]). Achievement of an...