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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 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
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Scaling-up shopbots: a dynamic allocation-based approach
In this paper we consider the problem of eCommerce comparison shopping agents (shopbots) that are limited by capacity constraints. In light of the phenomenal increase both in dema...
David Sarne, Sarit Kraus, Takayuki Ito
GRID
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Eliciting honest value information in a batch-queue environment
Abstract— Markets and auctions have been proposed as mechanisms for efficiently and fairly allocating resources in a number of different computational settings. Economic approac...
Andrew Mutz, Richard Wolski, John Brevik
ACMICEC
2005
ACM
175views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A theoretic discussion of tourism e-commerce
This paper presents the model of e-market structure and process analysis of tourism e-commerce. First the tourism e-commerce status quo is given clearly; secondly e-commerce and i...
Si-qing Liu
HICSS
2003
IEEE
146views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
A Model for the Emergence and Diffusion of Software Standards
The economic impact of the growth dynamic of standards is often described from a macroeconomic point of view, employing network effect theory and models dealing with externalities...
Tim Stockheim, Michael Schwind, Wolfgang Köni...