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SIGMOD
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2011
ACM
Considering a broad definition for service contracts (beyond web services and software, e.g. airline tickets and insurance policies), we tackle the challenges of building a high ...
MANSCI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
FC
2009
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Consider an “information market” where private and potentially sensitive data are collected, treated as commodity and processed into aggregated information with comme...
CIDR
2011
12 years 9 months ago
2011
Cloud computing provides users near instant access to seemingly unlimited resources, and provides service providers the opportunity to deploy complex information technology infras...
WINE
2005
Springer
13 years 11 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...