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SIGECOM
2011
ACM
170views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Only valuable experts can be valued
Suppose a principal Alice wishes to reduce her uncertainty regarding some future payoff. Consider a self-proclaimed expert Bob that may either be an informed expert knowing an ex...
Moshe Babaioff, Liad Blumrosen, Nicolas S. Lambert...
WINE
2010
Springer
144views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
An Axiomatic Characterization of Continuous-Outcome Market Makers
Abstract. Most existing market maker mechanisms for prediction markets are designed for events with a finite number of outcomes. All known attempts on designing market makers for f...
Xi Alice Gao, Yiling Chen
NOMS
2000
IEEE
121views Communications» more  NOMS 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Providing quality of service monitoring: challenges and approaches
Future integrated services networks will need to provide quality of service (QoS) guarantees to multimedia applications. To ensure that the contracted QoS is sustained, it is not ...
Yuming Jiang, Chen-Khong Tham, Chi Chung Ko
ACSW
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Improving resource utilisation in market oriented grid management and scheduling
Service providers of the future could dynamically negotiate for, and create their infrastructure on Grid based utility computing and communication providers. Such commercialisatio...
Kris Bubendorfer
FMCO
2004
Springer
123views Formal Methods» more  FMCO 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
rCOS: Refinement of Component and Object Systems
Abstract. We present a model of object-oriented and component-based refinement. For object-orientation, the model is class-based and refinement is about correct changes in the stru...
Zhiming Liu, Jifeng He, Xiaoshan Li