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ACMICEC
2007
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Pricing digital content with DRM mechanism
The Internet and file sharing technology (such as P2P network) significantly alleviate the content distribution cost. However, better digital content distribution also means that ...
Yung-Ming Li, Chia-Hao Lin
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
The price of truthfulness for pay-per-click auctions
We analyze the problem of designing a truthful pay-per-click auction where the click-through-rates (CTR) of the bidders are unknown to the auction. Such an auction faces the class...
Nikhil R. Devanur, Sham M. Kakade
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A few good agents: multi-agent social learning
In this paper, we investigate multi-agent learning (MAL) in a multi-agent resource selection problem (MARS) in which a large group of agents are competing for common resources. Si...
Jean Oh, Stephen F. Smith
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Fair access to scarce resources in ad-hoc grids using an economic-based approach
In ad-hoc Grids where the availability of resources and tasks changes over the time, distributing the tasks among the scarce resources in a balanced way is a challenging task. In ...
Behnaz Pourebrahimi, Koen Bertels
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Outperforming the competition in multi-unit sealed bid auctions
In this paper, we examine the behavior of bidding agents that are in direct competition with the other participants in an auction setting. Thus the agents are not simply trying to...
Ioannis A. Vetsikas, Nicholas R. Jennings