Optimal Mechanism Design for a Sequencing Problem with Two-Dimensional Types
研究了工作代理具有处理时间和等待成本两种私有信息时的排序机制设计，通过线性规划在多项式时间内求解最小期望支付问题，并允许类型跨工作相关。
We study the design of mechanisms for a sequencing problem where the types of job-agents consist of processing times and waiting costs that are private to the jobs. In the Bayes-Nash setting, we seek to find a sequencing rule and incentive compatible payments that minimize the total expected payments that have to be made to the agents. It is known that the problem can be efficiently solved when jobs have single-dimensional types. Here, we address the problem with two-dimensional types. We show that the problem can be solved in polynomial time by linear programming techniques, answering an open problem formulated by Heydenreich et al. Our implementation is randomized and truthful in expectation. Remarkably, it also works when types are correlated across jobs. The main steps are a compactification of an exponential size linear programming formulation, and a convex decomposition algorithm that allows us to implement the optimal linear programming solution. In addition, by means of computational experiments, we generate some new insights into the implementability in different equilibria.