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WINE
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. In this paper we present a cooperative game theoretic interpretation of the shortest path problem. We consider a buying agent who has a budget to go from a specified sou...
WINE
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2007
Springer
We introduce the concept of a trust network—a decentralized payment infrastructure in which payments are routed as IOUs between trusted entities. The trust network has directed ...
NETWORKING
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
We address the problem of maximizing the social welfare in a peer-to-peer streaming overlay given a fixed amount of server upload capacity. We show that peers' selfish behavio...
HOLOMAS
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
To come to a deal, a bargaining process can sometimes take a long time. An auction may be a faster, but existing auction models cannot cope with situations where money is not an is...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
We exhibit incentive compatible multi-unit auctions that are not affine maximizers (i.e. are not of the VCG family) and yet approximate the social welfare to within a factor of 1 ...