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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak
MOBILITY
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
UbiPay: minimizing transaction costs with smart mobile payments
Implementing an electronic payment system involves striking a balance between usability and security. Systems that allow payments to be completed with little effort on the part of...
Vili Lehdonvirta, Hayuru Soma, Hitoshi Ito, Tetsuo...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
100views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
The price of uncertainty
We study the degree to which small fluctuations in costs in wellstudied potential games can impact the result of natural best-response and improved-response dynamics. We call thi...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Yishay Mansour
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
111views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A qualitative vickrey auction
Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
Paul Harrenstein, Mathijs de Weerdt, Vincent Conit...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Bidding optimally in concurrent second-price auctions of perfectly substitutable goods
We derive optimal bidding strategies for a global bidding agent that participates in multiple, simultaneous second-price auctions with perfect substitutes. We first consider a mo...
Enrico H. Gerding, Rajdeep K. Dash, David C. K. Yu...