Abstract. Different auction-based approaches have been used to allocate resources in Grids, but none of them provide the design choice for a specific economic model while consideri...
This paper describes the basis of citation auctions that are introduced as a new approach to selecting scientific papers for publication. Unlike the state of the art in paper sele...
Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Abstract. In this paper we consider commitment schemes that are secure against concurrent man-in-the-middle (cMiM) attacks. Under such attacks, two possible notions of security for...
Rafail Ostrovsky, Giuseppe Persiano, Ivan Visconti