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ECTEL
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Reflections on Digital Literacy
Parallel to the societal diffusion of digital technologies, the debate on their impacts and requirements has created terms like ICT literacy, digital literacy or digital competenc...
Harald Gapski
WINE
2005
Springer
161views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Design of Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Stackelberg Problems
This paper takes the first steps towards designing incentive compatible mechanisms for hierarchical decision making problems involving selfish agents. We call these Stackelberg p...
Dinesh Garg, Yadati Narahari
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Resource limitations, transmission costs and critical thresholds in scale-free networks
Whether or not a critical threshold exists when epidemic diseases are spread in complex networks is a problem attracting attention from researchers in several disciplines. In 2001...
Chung-Yuan Huang, Chuen-Tsai Sun, Chia-Ying Cheng,...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
On the importance of migration for fairness in online grid markets
Computational grids offer users a simple access to tremendous computer resources for solving large scale computing problems. Traditional performance analysis of scheduling algorit...
Lior Amar, Ahuva Mu'alem, Jochen Stößer