WINE
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
We give a simple analysis of the competitive ratio of the random sampling auction from [10]. The random sampling auction was first shown to be worst-case competitive in [9] (with ...
WINE
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Organizational employees have different knowledge demands and the knowledge is compound. So how to push the right compound knowledge to the right organizational employees becomes i...
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2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. We give a simple characterization of all single-item truthrevealing auctions under some mild (and natural) assumptions about the auctions. Our work opens up the possibili...
WINE
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
A sharing community prospers when participation and contribution are both high. We suggest both, while being related decisions every peer makes, should be given separate rational ...
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2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
The assessment of credibility and reputation of contractors in online auctions is the key issue in providing reliable environment for customer-to-customer e-commerce. Confident re...
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2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. Providing network connectivity to rural regions in the developing world is an economically challenging problem especially given the low income levels and low population d...
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2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
In this paper, we define a network service provider game. We show that the price of anarchy of the defined game can be bounded by analyzing a local search heuristic for a related...
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2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Consider a network vulnerable to viral infection. The system security software can guarantee safety only to a limited part of the network. Such limitations result from economy cos...
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2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
We propose a simple and intuitive cost mechanism which assigns costs for the competitive usage of m resources by n selfish agents. Each agent has an individual demand; demands are...
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2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
We study the complexity issues for Walrasian equilibrium in a special case of combinatorial auction, called single-minded auction, in which every participant is interested in only ...