WINE
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...
WINE
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...
WINE
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...
WINE
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...
WINE
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...
WINE
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 ...
WINE
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. We experimentally studied the effects of a eBay-style selfreporting reputation mechanism in an double-sided exchange economy in which participants have the option of not...
WINE
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
We introduce a novel delay pricing and charging scheme in deadline-based networks to support real-time data delivery. We study the delay performance observed by individual users wh...
WINE
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. In this paper we present a cooperative game theoretic interpretation of the shortest path problem. We consider a buying agent who has a budget to go from a specified sou...
WINE
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. In pay-per-click online advertising systems like Google, Overture, or MSN, advertisers are charged for their ads only when a user clicks on the ad. While these systems ha...