Lectures on Frugal Mechanism Design
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These lecture notes cover two lectures from EECS 510, Algorithmic Mechanism Design, offered at Northwestern University in the Spring 2008 term. They cover the topic of frugality in mechanism design. Prerequisites for reading these lecture notes are basic understanding of algorithms and complexity as well as elementary calculus and probability theory. I will also assume that the reader has access to Lectures on Optimal Mechanism Design, course notes from the 2005 Fall term of Stanford course CS364B, Topics in Algorithmic Game Theory. Thanks to the students of EECS510. Comments are welcome.
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