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2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Fault tolerant mechanism design
We introduce the notion of fault tolerant mechanism design, which extends the standard game theoretic framework of mechanism design to allow for uncertainty about execution. Speci...
Ryan Porter, Amir Ronen, Yoav Shoham, Moshe Tennen...
JSAC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
On the Interaction and Competition among Internet Service Providers
The current Internet architecture comprises of different privately owned Internet service providers (ISPs) where higher tier ISPs supply connectivity service to lower tier ISPs an...
Sam C. M. Lee, John C. S. Lui
HICSS
2010
IEEE
161views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Managing Information Intensive Service Facilities: Executive Contracts, Market Information, and Capacity Planning
in Progress – Extended Abstract Word count: 3124 Effectively managing IT service centers such as call centers, computerized diagnostic imaging facilities, data centers, e-commerc...
Yabing Jiang, Abraham Seidmann
AAIM
2005
Springer
75views Algorithms» more  AAIM 2005»
14 years 28 days ago
Mechanism Design for Set Cover Games When Elements Are Agents
In this paper we study the set cover games when the elements are selfish agents. In this case, each element has a privately known valuation of receiving the service from the sets,...
Zheng Sun, Xiang-Yang Li, Weizhao Wang, Xiaowen Ch...
WPES
2004
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Will your digital butlers betray you?
The cost of data storage is now so low that there is little necessity ever to delete anything. The consequence is denied oblivion—digital systems that remember forever and can b...
Frank Stajano