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ASSETS
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Accessible spaces: navigating through a marked environment with a camera phone
We demonstrate a system designed to assist a visually impaired individual while moving in an unfamiliar environment. Small and economical color markers are placed in key locations...
Kee-Yip Chan, Roberto Manduchi, James Coughlan
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 14 hour ago
Zero-intelligence agents in prediction markets
We construct a novel agent-based model of prediction markets in which putative human qualities like learning, reasoning, and profit-seeking are absent. We show that the prices whi...
Abraham Othman
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 13 hour ago
Incorporating user utility into sponsored-search auctions
We study principled methods for incorporating user utility into the selection of sponsored search ads. We describe variations of the GSP allocation/pricing mechanism that accommod...
Yagil Engel, David Maxwell Chickering
MKWI
2008
152views Business» more  MKWI 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a Market-Centric OGSA-Compliant Architecture Model
: The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) provides a high-level framework for service-oriented grid architecture, mostly based on web service standards. The vision of a worldwid...
Paul Karänke, Thomas Bieser, Michael Schü...
ICIS
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Transaction Costs and Market Efficiency
Previous research suggests that a decline in transactions costs leads to improved economic efficiency. In this paper,weshowthatsuchadeclinewillintroduceincreasinglyuninformedconsu...
Bin Gu, Lorin M. Hitt