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WINE
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Competitive Repeated Allocation without Payments
We study the problem of allocating a single item repeatedly among multiple competing agents, in an environment where monetary transfers are not possible. We design (Bayes-Nash) inc...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer, Daniel M. Reeves
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 20 days ago
Bargaining to Improve Channel Sharing between Selfish Cognitive Radios
We consider a problem where two selfish cognitive radio users try to share two channels on which they each have potentially different valuations. We first formulate the problem as ...
Hua Liu, Allen B. MacKenzie, Bhaskar Krishnamachar...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
BarterCast: A practical approach to prevent lazy freeriding in P2P networks
A well-known problem in P2P systems is freeriding, where users do not share content if there is no incentive to do so. In this paper, we distinguish lazy freeriders that are merel...
Michel Meulpolder, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. E...
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Revenue Maximization for Communication Networks with Usage-Based Pricing
—We study the optimal usage-based pricing problem in a resource-bounded network with one profit-maximizing service provider and multiple groups of surplus-maximizing users. We ...
Shuqin Li, Jianwei Huang, Shuo-Yen Robert Li