This paper presents a new ascending-price multi-unit auction protocol. As far as the authors are aware, this is the first protocol that has an open format, and in which sincere b...
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Distributed hash table (DHT) systems are an important class of peer-to-peer routing infrastructures. They enable scalable wide-area storage and retrieval of information, and will ...
“Client Services”, “User Services”, “Customer Service”: whatever we call it at our various colleges and universities, it’s not just about fixing hardware and softwar...
Providing instructional technology support for faculty requires a range of skills, from knowledge of software and hardware, to an ability to communicate, teach workshops, and rela...