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WPES
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The privacy cost of the second-chance offer
This paper examines a generalization of a two-stage game common on eBay: an ascending-price auction followed by price discrimination (the second chance offer). High bids in the a...
Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun, Poorvi L. Vora
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Pricing under Constraints in Access Networks: Revenue Maximization and Congestion Management
Abstract—This paper investigates pricing of Internet connectivity services in the context of a monopoly ISP selling broadband access to consumers. We first study the optimal com...
Prashanth Hande, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank...
AGENTS
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Shopbot Economics
Abstract. Shopbots are agents that search the Internet for information pertaining to the price and quality of goods or services. With the advent of shopbots, a dramatic reduction i...
Jeffrey O. Kephart, Amy R. Greenwald