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ding truthfully and setting b i = v i . As shown in that paper, this condition # Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Email: avrim@cs.cmu.edu + Strategic Planning and Optimization Team, Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, Email: vijayk@amazon.com # Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. This work was done while the author was at IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India. Email: atri@cs.utexas.edu Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Email: felix@cs.berkeley.edu is equivalent to the condition that each s i depends only on the first i 1 bids, and not on the ith bid. Hence, the auction mechanism is essentially trying to guess the ith valuation, based on the first i 1 valuations. As in previous papers [3, 5, 6], we will use competitive analysis to analyze the performance of any given auction. Hence, we are interested in the worst-case ratio (over all sequences of valuations)

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