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ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Robust mechanisms for information elicitation
We study information elicitation mechanisms in which a principal agent attempts to elicit the private information of other agents using a carefully selected payment scheme based o...
Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
GECON
2007
Springer
153views Business» more  GECON 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?
We study a peer-to-peer backup system, where users offer some of their storage space to provide service for the others. The economic model for such a system is different from the o...
László Toka, Patrick Maillé
TCOM
2008
68views more  TCOM 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Analysis and design of book-ahead bandwidth-sharing mechanisms
In this article, we present a novel discrete-time Markov chain model of book-ahead bandwidthsharing mechanisms. We use this analytical model and a simulation model to understand t...
Xiangfei Zhu, Malathi Veeraraghavan
ICCCN
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Logical Topology Design for IP-over-WDM Networks: A Hybrid Approach for Minimum Protection Capacity
—The problem of designing high capacity and high bit rate IP-over-WDM networks, which can provide uninterrupted service in the presence of network equipment failures, continues t...
Muhammad S. Javed, Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman, Guoli...
WINE
2007
Springer
182views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Mechanism Design on Trust Networks
We introduce the concept of a trust network—a decentralized payment infrastructure in which payments are routed as IOUs between trusted entities. The trust network has directed ...
Arpita Ghosh, Mohammad Mahdian, Daniel M. Reeves, ...