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SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Rethinking the economics of software engineering
Reliance on skilled developers reduces the return on investment for important software engineering tasks such as establishing program correctness. This position paper introduces a...
Todd W. Schiller, Michael D. Ernst
HICSS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
An Economic Model for Comparing Search Services
Search services are now ubiquitously employed in searching for documents on the Internet and on enterprise intranets. This research develops an economic model for comparing search...
Stephen K. Kwan, Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan
AAAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Economic Hierarchical Q-Learning
Hierarchical state decompositions address the curse-ofdimensionality in Q-learning methods for reinforcement learning (RL) but can suffer from suboptimality. In addressing this, w...
Erik G. Schultink, Ruggiero Cavallo, David C. Park...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Using Repeated Games to Design Incentive-Based Routing Systems
Abstract— Incorporating pricing information in routing systems has been explored in various contexts and fashions. In this paper we examine certain fundamental properties importa...
Michael Afergan
JUCS
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Restricting the View and Connecting the Dots - Dangers of a Web Search Engine Monopoly
: Everyone realizes how powerful the few big Web search engine companies have become, both in terms of financial resources due to soaring stock quotes and in terms of the still hid...
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Wolf-Tilo Balke