Grid technologies and the related concepts of utility computing and cloud computing enable the dynamic sourcing of computer resources and services, thus allowing enterprises to cu...
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...
The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this pap...
There exists a huge demand for multimedia goods and services in the Internet. Currently available bandwidth speeds can support sale of downloadable content like CDs, e-books, etc....
Srinivasan Jagannathan, Jayanth Nayak, Kevin C. Al...
Abstract. Service-oriented computing promotes the construction of applications by composing distributed services that are advertised in an open service market. In such an environme...
Domenico Bianculli, Radu Jurca, Walter Binder, Car...