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WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
An economic model of the worldwide web
: We believe that much novel insight into the worldwide web can be obtained from taking into account the important fact that it is created, used, and run by selfish optimizing agen...
Georgios Kouroupas, Elias Koutsoupias, Christos H....
GECON
2008
Springer
152views Business» more  GECON 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
The Power of Preemption in Economic Online Markets
Abstract. In distributed computer networks where resources are under decentralized control, selfish users will generally not work towards one common goal, such as maximizing the o...
Lior Amar, Ahuva Mu'alem, Jochen Stößer
ICDE
2009
IEEE
168views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
13 years 7 months ago
An Economic Model for Self-Tuned Cloud Caching
Abstract--Cloud computing, the new trend for service infrastructures requires user multi-tenancy as well as minimal capital expenditure. In a cloud that services large amounts of d...
Debabrata Dash, Verena Kantere, Anastasia Ailamaki
AAMAS
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-goal economic search using dynamic search structures
This paper investigates cooperative search strategies for agents engaged in costly search in a complex environment. Searching cooperatively, several search goals can be satisfied w...
David Sarne, Efrat Manisterski, Sarit Kraus
P2P
2003
IEEE
130views Communications» more  P2P 2003»
14 years 3 months ago
Peer-to-Peer Wireless LAN Consortia: Economic Modeling and Architecture
Abstract—In this paper we explore the incentive and architectural issues that arise in Consortia of Peer-to-Peer Wireless Local Area Networks. A P2P WLAN Consortium (PWC) is a co...
Panayotis Antoniadis, Costas Courcoubetis, Elias C...