Multi-parameter Auctions: Truthfulness Conditions and Applications to Page Allocation in Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessors

Desarkar, Maunendra Sankar

ISBN 10: 384439608X / ISBN 13: 9783844396089

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

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• Title: Multi-parameter Auctions: Truthfulness Conditions and Applications to Page Allocation in Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessors
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 384439608X
• ISBN 13: 9783844396089
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Fair resource allocation plays an important role in determining the end performance of any computer system. Depending on the nature of resources and the mode of sharing, usually algorithms are implemented either in hardware or in software to guarantee fairness in resource sharing. These algorithms are generally complex and make the job of design verification difficult. Hence one can think of designing simpler algorithms, those would reduce the difficulty during design verification without losing much on the system performance. One such approach can be to have the competing agents specify their valuations for the resources. A central allocator listens to the valuations and takes allocation decisions accordingly. As the allocation is done solely depending on the valuations given by the agents, one needs to ensure truthfulness of the agents. In such cases we can view the resource allocation problem as a mechanism design problem. We investigate how the problem of page allocation in DSM multiprocessors can be solved using multi-parameter auctions. We formulate the page allocation problem as a multi-parameter auction and find out truthfulness conditions for such multi-parameter auctions.

About the Author

M. S. Desarkar received M.Tech. degree in CSE from IIT Kanpur in 2006. He worked in Sybase India Pvt. Ltd. as a Software Developer from 2006 to 2008. Since 2008 he has been a research scholar in CSE Dept, IIT Kharagpur. He was awarded MSR India PhD Fellowship in 2009. His research interests are in the areas of Data Mining and Information Retrieval.