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WDAG
2010
Springer
164views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
It's on Me! The Benefit of Altruism in BAR Environments
Abstract. Cooperation, a necessity for any peer-to-peer (P2P) cooperative service, is often achieved by rewarding good behavior now with the promise of future benefits. However, in...
Edmund L. Wong, Joshua B. Leners, Lorenzo Alvisi

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341views
15 years 8 months ago
Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Decentralized Supply Chain Formation
In this thesis, we describe a decentralized supply chain formation problem where the supply chain planner or a central design authority (CDA) is faced with the decision of choosi...
Nikesh Kumar Srivastava

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270views
15 years 8 months ago
Optimal Auctions for Multi-Unit Procurement with Volume Discount Bids
Our attention is focused on designing an optimal procurement mechanism which a buyer can use for procuring multiple units of a homogeneous item based on bids submitted by autonomou...
N. Hemachandra, Raghav Kumar Gautam, V. Hastagiri ...
PODS
2010
ACM
184views Database» more  PODS 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Universally optimal privacy mechanisms for minimax agents
A scheme that publishes aggregate information about sensitive data must resolve the trade-off between utility to information consumers and privacy of the database participants. D...
Mangesh Gupte, Mukund Sundararajan
HICSS
1999
IEEE
110views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1999»
14 years 1 months ago
Voting before Discussing: Computer Voting as Social Communication
This paper presents a case study on the use of an alternative method of computer support to that normally used, one that uses voting as a tool for social rather than rational choi...
Brian Whitworth, Robert J. McQueen