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SIGECOM
2005
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
A price-anticipating resource allocation mechanism for distributed shared clusters
In this paper we formulate the fixed budget resource allocation game to understand the performance of a distributed marketbased resource allocation system. Multiple users decide ...
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Li Zhang
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Negotiating over small bundles of resources
When rational but myopic agents negotiate over the exchange of indivisible resources, any restriction to the negotiation protocol may prevent the system from converging to a socia...
Yann Chevaleyre, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
120views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
Robust incentive techniques for peer-to-peer networks
Lack of cooperation (free riding) is one of the key problems that confronts today’s P2P systems. What makes this problem particularly difficult is the unique set of challenges ...
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Ion Stoica, John Chuang
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
93views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
Strategic deliberation and truthful revelation: an impossibility result
In many market settings, agents do not know their preferences a priori. Instead, they may have to solve computationally complex optimization problems, query databases, or perform ...
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
137views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Prediction without markets
Citing recent successes in forecasting elections, movies, products, and other outcomes, prediction market advocates call for widespread use of market-based methods for government ...
Sharad Goel, Daniel M. Reeves, Duncan J. Watts, Da...