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IOR
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Exotic Options for Interruptible Electricity Supply Contracts
This paper presents the design and pricing of financial contracts for the supply and procurement of interruptible electricity service. While the contract forms and pricing methodo...
Rajnish Kamat, Shmuel S. Oren
VLDB
2007
ACM
105views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Using a distributed quadtree index in peer-to-peer networks
Abstract Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have become a powerful means for online data exchange. Currently, users are primarily utilizing these networks to perform exact-match queries a...
Egemen Tanin, Aaron Harwood, Hanan Samet
WINE
2007
Springer
182views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Mechanism Design on Trust Networks
We introduce the concept of a trust network—a decentralized payment infrastructure in which payments are routed as IOUs between trusted entities. The trust network has directed ...
Arpita Ghosh, Mohammad Mahdian, Daniel M. Reeves, ...
WINE
2009
Springer
117views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Envy-Free Allocations for Budgeted Bidders
We study the problem of identifying prices to support a given allocation of items to bidders in an envy-free way. A bidder will envy another bidder if she would prefer to obtain th...
David Kempe, Ahuva Mu'alem, Mahyar Salek
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
92views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
True costs of cheap labor are hard to measure: edge deletion and VCG payments in graphs
We address the problem of lowering the buyer’s expected payments in shortest path auctions, where the buyer’s goal is to purchase a path in a graph in which edges are owned by...
Edith Elkind