This paper focuses on competitive function evaluation in the context of computing with priced information. A function f is given together with a cost cx for each variable x of f. ...
Markets for electronic goods provide the possibility of exploring new and more complex pricing schemes, due to the flexibility of information goods and negligible marginal cost. I...
Christopher H. Brooks, Scott A. Fay, Rajarshi Das,...
The group-buying auction is a new kind of dynamic pricing mechanism on the Internet. It is a variant of the sellers' price double auction, which makes the bidders as a group t...
We extend Goldberg’s multi-server information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR) with a suite of protocols for privacypreserving e-commerce. Our first protocol adds ...