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SIGUCCS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Getting iTunes U at Ithaca College up and running!
iTunes U is a free service from Apple that allows for the easy organization and distribution of content through iTunes. In the spring of 2008, Ithaca College signed a contract wit...
Beth M. Rugg
SIGUCCS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
If we build it will you come?
Yvonne Clark, Peggy Shuffstall
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Modeling volatility in prediction markets
There is significant experimental evidence that prediction markets are efficient mechanisms for aggregating information and are more accurate in forecasting events than tradition...
Nikolay Archak, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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But who will monitor the monitor?
Consider a group of individuals in a strategic environment with moral hazard and adverse selection, and suppose that providing incentives for a given outcome requires a monitor to...
David M. Rahman
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
On random sampling auctions for digital goods
In the context of auctions for digital goods, an interesting Random Sampling Optimal Price auction (RSOP) has been proposed by Goldberg, Hartline and Wright; this leads to a truth...
Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian, Aravind Srinivasa...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
On representing coalitional games with externalities
We consider the issue of representing coalitional games in multiagent systems with externalities (i.e., in systems where the performance of one coalition may be affected by other ...
Tomasz P. Michalak, Talal Rahwan, Jacek Sroka, And...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
117views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
Sybilproof transitive trust protocols
We study protocols to enable one user (the principal) to make potentially profitable but risky interactions with another user (the agent), in the absence of direct trust between ...
Paul Resnick, Rahul Sami
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
111views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
A qualitative vickrey auction
Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
Paul Harrenstein, Mathijs de Weerdt, Vincent Conit...