The Web has become an excellent source for gathering consumer opinions. There are now numerous Web sites containing such opinions, e.g., customer reviews of products, forums, disc...
The rise of the Internet and electronic commerce provide a huge marketspace and unique transaction process for digital products. It is significant to discuss whether established m...
Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal on...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Tu...
This paper presents a precise market model for a well-defined class of distributed configuration design problems. Given a design problem, the model defines a computational economy...
—It becomes an interesting research topic to detect trend in the Internet era, where millions of data are posted online everyday. As social media, for example, blogs, forums, and...