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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
149views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 17 days ago
A new understanding of prediction markets via no-regret learning
We explore the striking mathematical connections that exist between market scoring rules, cost function based prediction markets, and no-regret learning. We first show that any c...
Yiling Chen, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
USS
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Re: CAPTCHAs-Understanding CAPTCHA-Solving Services in an Economic Context
Reverse Turing tests, or CAPTCHAs, have become an ubiquitous defense used to protect open Web resources from being exploited at scale. An effective CAPTCHA resists existing mechan...
Marti Motoyama, Kirill Levchenko, Chris Kanich, Da...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
96views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Interconnection in the GCC Grid: The Economics of Change
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is nearing the completion of a high voltage transmission system designed to integrate the power systems of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar,...
Richard D. Tabors
CLOUD
2010
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
RACS: a case for cloud storage diversity
The increasing popularity of cloud storage is leading organizations to consider moving data out of their own data centers and into the cloud. However, success for cloud storage pr...
Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Lonnie Princehouse, Hakim Weath...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Can markets help?: applying market mechanisms to improve synchronous communication
There is a growing interest in applying market mechanisms to tackle everyday communication problems such as communication interruptions and communication overload. Prior analytic ...
Gary Hsieh, Robert Kraut, Scott E. Hudson, Roberto...