Benjamin Lubin / Papers and Research

LATEST: Under Review & Near Submission

(Drafts available upon request)

Mechanism Design

• B. Lubin, B. Buenz, and S. Seuken (2017). Designing Core-selecting Payment Rules: A Computational Search Approach.

• S. Lahaie and B. Lubin (2017). Adaptive Price Combinatorial Auctions.

• G. Brero, B. Lubin and S. Seuken (2017). Combinatorial Auctions via Machine Learning-based Preference Elicitation.

Social Network Methods

• B. Lubin, J. Shore, V. Ishakian (2017). Designing Network Structures for Digitally-Mediated Collaboration. Earlier working version available here.

Social Networks & Machine Learning in Healthcare

• K. Geissler, B. Lubin, K. Ericson (2017). Physicians Are More Likely to Make Referrals Within Medical Group, But Not Physician Contracting Network.

• B. Lubin, K.Geissler, K. Ericson (2017). Insurance Design and Physician Information Network Structure.

• S. Zheng, M. Shwartz, B. Lubin (2017). Predicting Long-Term Patient Cost from Chart-Level Data: Applying Machine Learning to the Framingham Heart Study.

On-Going Research & Working-Papers

Mechanism Design

• B. Lubin (2015). Games and Meta-Games: Pricing Rules for Combinatorial Mechanisms.

• B. Lubin. Revenue Optimal Composite Good Design with Applications to the Cloud.

• B. Lubin, B. Buenz, S. Seuken (2016). New Core-Selecting Payment Rules with Better Fairness and Incentive Properties.

Social Network Methods

• B. Lubin. J. Shore. Evaluating the Suitability of Network Models via Spectral Hypothesis Testing.

Journal Publications & Book Chapters

• K. Ericson, K. Geissler, B. Lubin (2017). The Impact of Partial-Year Enrollment on the Accuracy of Risk Adjustment Systems: A Framework and Evidence American Journal of Health Economics. 1-43.

• B. Lubin, A. Juda, R. Cavallo, S. Lahaie, J. Schneidman, D. Parkes. (2017). ICE: An Expressive Iterative Combinatorial Exchange. Book chapter in Handbook of Spectrum Auction Design, Martin Bichler and Jacob Goeree Ed.

• K.Geissler, B. Lubin, K. Ericson (2016). Access is not Enough: Characteristics of Physicians Who Treat Medicaid Patients. Medical Care 55:4, 350-358.

• J. Shore, B. Lubin (2015). Spectral Goodness-Of-Fit For Network Models. Social Networks 43, 16-27.

• P. Dutting, F. Fischer, P. Jirapinyo, J. Lai, B. Lubin, D. Parkes (2014). Payment Rules through Discriminant-Based Classifiers. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 3:1, 1-41.

• M. Guevara, B. Lubin, B. Lee. (2014). Market Mechanisms for Managing Datacenters with Heterogeneous Microarchitectures. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 32:1

• B. Lubin, D. Parkes. (2014). Allocating and Pricing Data Center Resources with Power-Aware Combinatorial Auctions. Book chapter in Smart Data Pricing, S. Sen, C. Joe-Wong, S. Ha, M. Chiang Ed.

• B. Lubin, D. Parkes (2012). Approximate Strategyproofness. Current Science. 103:09, Nov

• B. Lubin, A. Juda, R. Cavallo, S. Lahaie, J. Schneidman, D. Parkes. (2008). ICE: An Expressive Iterative Combinatorial Exchange. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 33, 33-77.

Peer-Reviewed Computer Science Conference Papers

• V. Bosshard, Buenz, B. Lubin, S. Seuken (2017). An Algorithm for Computing Bayes-Nash Equilibria in Large Combinatorial Auctions. Proc. of the 26th International Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17)

• G. Brero, B. Lubin, S. Seuken. (2017) Probably Approximately Efficient Combinatorial Auctions Via Machine Learning. Proc. of the 31st Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17).

• M. Weiss, B. Lubin, S. Seuken. (2017) SATS: A Universal Spectrum Auction Test Suite. Proc of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-17)

• M. Ghasemi, B. Lubin. (2015) Modeling Multi-Attribute Demand for Sustainable Cloud Computing with Copulae. Proc. of the 24th International Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15)

• B. Buenz, S. Seuken, B. Lubin (2015). A Faster Core Constraint Generation Algorithm for Combinatorial Auctions. Proc. of the 29th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15).

• M. Guevara, B. Lubin, B. Lee. (2014). Strategies for Anticipating Risk in Heterogeneous System Design. Proc of the 20th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-14).

• M. Guevara, B. Lubin, B. Lee. (2013). Navigating Heterogeneous Architectures with Market Mechanisms. Proc of the 19th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-13).

• P. Dutting, F. Fischer, P. Jirapinyo, J. Lai, B. Lubin, D. Parkes (2012). Payment Rules through Discriminant-Based Classifiers. Proc of the 13th ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce (EC-12 Best Paper)

• B. Lubin, D. Parkes. (2009). Quantifying the Strategyproofness of Mechanisms via Metrics on Payoff Distributions. Proc. of the 25th Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-09).

• B. Lubin, J. Kephart, R. Das, D. Parkes. (2009). Expressive Power-Based Resource Allocation for Data Centers. Proc. of the 21st International Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09).

• R. Cavallo, D. Parkes, A. Juda, A. Kirsch, A. Kulesza, S. Lahaie, B. Lubin, L. Michael, J.Shneidman. (2005). TBBL: A Tree-Based Bidding Language for Iterative Combinatorial Exchanges. Proc. of the Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling

• D. Parkes, R. Cavallo, N. Elprin, A. Juda, S. Lahaie, B. Lubin, L. Michael, J. Shneidman, H. Sultan. (2005). ICE: An Iterative Combinatorial Exchange. Proc. of the 6th ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce (EC-05), 249-258.

• S. Rana-Stevens, B. Lubin, D. Montana. (2000). The Air Crew Scheduling System: The Design of a Real-World, Dynamic Genetic Scheduler. Proc. of the 2nd Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conf. Late Breaking Papers, 317-324 (GECO-00).

Conference Papers on Educational Methodology

• Wyner, G. M. and Lubin, B. (2013). The quest to learn web technologies: Using Google AppEngine to create an online adventure game. 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS-13), Chicago, IL.(Accepted, but presentation withdrawn due to Wyner family emergency)

• G. Wyner, B. Lubin (2012). It's Not Just a Class, It's an Adventure: Teaching Web Development Through Game Creation. (WITS-12)

• G. Wyner, B. Lubin (2011). From Hello World to Interface Design in Three Days: Teaching Non- Technical Students to Use and API. (AMCIS-11)

Posters

• K. Geissler, B. Lubin, K Ericson (2015). Access is not enough: characteristics of physicians who treat Medicaid patients. Academy Health

• K. Geissler, B. Lubin, K Ericson (2015). Insurance Policy Design and Physician Information Network Structure: Evidence from a Large-Scale Dataset. Academy Health

• B. Lubin, K. Geissler, K. Ericson (2014). A Network Analysis of Physician Information Sharing and its Mediation by Insurance Coverage. Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR-14)

• B. Lubin, J. Shore, V. Ishakian (2013). Communication Network Design: Balancing Modularity and Mixing via Extremal Graph Spectra. Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE-13)

• B. Lubin, J. Shore, V. Ishakian (2013). Communication Network Design: Balancing Modularity and Mixing via Extremal Graph Spectra. New York Computer Science and Economics (NYCSE-13)

• B. Lubin and M. Ghasemi (2013). Construction of Revenue Optimal Composite Goods with Applications to the Cloud. Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR-13)

• B. Lubin, J. Shore, V. Ishakian (2012). Communication Network Design: Balancing Modularity and Mixing via Extremal Graph Spectra. Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN-12).

Technical Reports

• B. Lubin (2011). One-Sided Support Vector Regression as a Method for defining Payment Rules

• B. Lubin (2009). A General Payment Rule for Approximate Incentive Compatibility Using a Prior.

• B. Lubin (2008). Proposed Bidding Language Specification for the FAA Domain.

• B. Lubin and D. Parkes (2007). Generation of Realistic Synthetic Combinatorial Exchange Problems.

• B. Lubin (2006). Kernel Methods for Preference Representation in Combinatorial Auctions.

• B. Lubin (2005). Representing Parameterized Goods as Hypercubes.