Browsing by Subject "Efficiency"
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Collusive Dominant-Strategy Truthfulness
(2011-04-22)Fifty years ago, Vickrey published his famous mechanism for auctioning a single good in limited supply. The main property of Vickrey's mechanism is efficiency in dominant strategies. In absence of collusion, this is a ...
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Engineering Fundamentals of Energy Efficiency
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Engineering, 2010-03-16)Using energy more efficiently is essential if carbon emissions are to be reduced. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), energy efficiency improvements represent the largest and least costly savings in carbon ...