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WINE
2009
Springer
123views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Pseudonyms in Cost-Sharing Games
This work initiates the study of cost-sharing mechanisms that, in addition to the usual incentive compatibility conditions, make it disadvantageous for the users to employ pseudon...
Paolo Penna, Florian Schoppmann, Riccardo Silvestr...
AMMA
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Auctions with Dynamic Populations: Efficiency and Revenue Maximization
ABSTRACT: We examine an environment where goods and privately informed buyers arrive stochastically to a market. A seller in this setting faces a sequential allocation problem with...
Maher Said
PODC
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Sustaining collaboration in multicast despite rational collusion
This paper focuses on designing incentive mechanisms for overlay multicast systems. Existing proposals on the problem are no longer able to provide proper incentives when rational...
Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Chenwei Shi
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Reliable QoS monitoring based on client feedback
Service-level agreements (SLAs) establish a contract between service providers and clients concerning Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. Without proper penalties, service provid...
Radu Jurca, Boi Faltings, Walter Binder
GECON
2007
Springer
117views Business» more  GECON 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
DFCA: A Flexible Refundable Auction for Limited Capacity Suppliers
This paper proposes a novel auction-based mechanisms named Decreasing Cancellation Fee Auction (DCFA) for task allocation in the environment where a service provider has finite ca...
Zhixing Huang, Shigeo Matsubara