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SIGECOM
2004
ACM
132views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
14 years 27 days ago
A dynamic pari-mutuel market for hedging, wagering, and information aggregation
I develop a new mechanism for risk allocation and information speculation called a dynamic pari-mutuel market (DPM). A DPM acts as hybrid between a pari-mutuel market and a contin...
David M. Pennock
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 8 days ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
148views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Pricing digital content with DRM mechanism
The Internet and file sharing technology (such as P2P network) significantly alleviate the content distribution cost. However, better digital content distribution also means that ...
Yung-Ming Li, Chia-Hao Lin
DOLAP
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Building a web warehouse for accessibility data
As more and more information is available on the web, it is a problem that many web resources are not accessible, i.e., are not usable for users with special needs. For example, f...
Christian Thomsen, Torben Bach Pedersen
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Decentralised coordination of low-power embedded devices using the max-sum algorithm
This paper considers the problem of performing decentralised coordination of low-power embedded devices (as is required within many environmental sensing and surveillance applicat...
Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, Adrian Petcu, N...