Talk:Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction

Sources/quotes?
Interesting citations. "Science of teh Interwebs"? Assignment solutions? Perhaps a more trustworthy source would be useful ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.20.230.35 (talk) 20:46, 16 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, very suspicious... We should find something better, apart from Algorithmic Game Theory... I'll look at Combinatorial Auctions and try to fix it... Pallida  Mors  18:40, 26 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The source is Professor Luis von Ahn, who is well known in the field, and has a... different teach style. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.237.230.11 (talk) 00:10, 1 November 2011 (UTC)


 * The source is actually Section 15.4 of "Networks, Crowds, and Markets Reasoning About a Highly Connected World"

by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg. Luis von Ahn took his solution proof almost verbatim from this book. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch15.pdf Anyway the citation links are dead. http://web.archive.org/web/20081221055805/http://scienceoftheweb.org/15-396/assignments/assignment5_solutions.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20081221055849/http://scienceoftheweb.org/15-396/assignments/hwk5.pdf

Linking to the foorball match "VCG" animation example is a bad choice:
Specifically, the animation describes the "straightforward" extension of the Vickrey auction to multiple items, which is _not_ VCG and suffers from not being incentive compatible (truthful). The animation is flawed in claiming that k winners paying the price of the k+1 bidder corresponds to the VCG outcome. 89.210.173.111 (talk) 19:47, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

hyphens in URL
Must we use "Vickrey–Clarke–Groves_auction" for the link to this article? The "–" characters in the name are not the same as keyboard-entry "-" characters and cause a lot of pain in encoding them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ergotius (talk • contribs) 14:37, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Unless there have been some changes in the style guidelines, we must use the n-dash (–), per WP:DASH. There should be a redirect from Vickrey-Clarke-Groves auction; if there isn't, there will be, shortly.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 19:14, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Too technical
This could really use an example in English, that does not use mathematical symbols. -- Beland (talk) 22:15, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Groves–Ledyard mechanism
The French and Italian Wikipedias present in their corresponding articles a generalization know as the Groves–Ledyard mechanism, which is said to be a much more general schema, giving the following references: It will be appreciated if someone who is reasonably familiar with this kind of stuff could expand the article. --Lambiam 17:21, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Groves Th. and Ledyard J. (1977), "Optimal Allocation of Public Goods: A Solution to the "Free Rider" Problem", Econometrica, vol. 45, 1977, pp. 783-809.
 * Groves, T. and J. Ledyard (1987), "Incentive Compatibility since 1972", in: Th. Groves and R. Radner (1987) (Eds.), Essays in Honor of Leonid Hurwicz. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1987.

Theodore Groves: Not a pirates of the Caribbean Character
I don't really know how to fix it, but the current link to Theodore Groves in the second paragraph is a link to the Pirates of the Caribbean character of the same name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:0:1000:2E07:949A:918:68AB:1EDA (talk) 18:08, 20 August 2018 (UTC)