Publications

In computer science, conference papers undergo a rigorous peer-review process and serve as the main venue for publishing research. (α–β) indicates that authors are listed alphabetically by last name; otherwise, the order reflects their contributions.

Preprints & Papers under Review

• Facility Location Games Beyond Single-Peakedness: the Entrance Fee Model
  Mengfan Ma, Mingyu Xiao, Tian Bai, Bakh Khoussainov

Conferences & Journals

• Searching for Optimal Prices in Two-Sided Markets
  (α–β) with Yiding Feng, Bo Peng and Zongqi Wan
  ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2026)
  

• Contracting with a Mechanism Designer
  (α–β) with Tian Bai, Yiding Feng, Yaohao Liu and Mingyu Xiao
  ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2026)
  

• Contextual Search in Principal-Agent Games: The Curse of Degeneracy
  (α–β) with Yiding Feng, Bo Peng and Zongqi Wan
  The 37th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2026)

• SE-ASSO: A Security-Enhanced Anonymous Single-Sign-On Authentication Scheme
  Shanshan Li, Mengfan Ma^∗, Yunxia Han
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2026

• Password-based Outsourced Data Protection for Cloud Storage Against Backdoor Attacks
  Shanshan Li, Mengfan Ma^∗, Chunxiang Xu, Zhiyang Li
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2026

• Towards subversion-resistant password-protected encryption for deduplicated cloud storage
  Shanshan Li, Mengfan Ma^∗, Yunxia Han, Chunxiang Xu
  Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), 2025

• Price of Non-Discrimination in Public Combinatorial Contracts
  (α–β) with Yiding Feng and Mingyu Xiao
  The 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2024)

• Facility Assignment with Fair Cost Sharing: Equilibrium and Mechanism Design
  Mengfan Ma, Tian Bai, Xin Cheng, Mingyu Xiao
  The 30th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2024)

• Facility location games with entrance fees
  Mengfan Ma, Mingyu Xiao, Tian Bai, Bakh Khoussainov
  The 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023)

• A vertex-separator-based integer linear programming formulation for the partitioned Steiner tree problem
  Mengfan Ma, Ziyang Men, André Rossi, Yi Zhou, Mingyu Xiao
  Computers & Operations Research (COR), 2023