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AAAI
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Incentive-Compatible Escrow Mechanisms
The most prominent way to establish trust between buyers and sellers on online auction sites are reputation mechanisms. Two drawbacks of this approach are the reliance on the sell...
Jens Witkowski, Sven Seuken, David C. Parkes
MANSCI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang
HYBRID
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Optimal Switches in Multi-inventory Systems
Given a switched multi–inventory system we wish to find the optimal schedule of the resets to maintain the system in a safe operating interval, while minimizing a function relat...
Dario Bauso
CPM
2004
Springer
110views Combinatorics» more  CPM 2004»
14 years 27 days ago
On the k-Closest Substring and k-Consensus Pattern Problems
Given a set S = {s1, s2, . . . , sn} of strings each of length m, and an integer L, we study the following two problems. k-Closest Substring problem: find k center strings c1, c2,...
Yishan Jiao, Jingyi Xu, Ming Li
QOFIS
2004
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
BarterRoam: A Novel Mobile and Wireless Roaming Settlement Model
This paper describes BarterRoam: a new novel mobile and wireless roaming settlement model and clearance methodology, based on the concept of sharing and bartering excess capacities...
Eng Keong Lua, Alex Lin, Jon Crowcroft, Valerie Ta...