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JIFS
2007
115views more  JIFS 2007»
13 years 5 months ago
Winner determination for combinatorial auctions for tasks with time and precedence constraints
We present a solution to the winner determination problem which takes into account not only costs but also risk aversion of the agent that accepts the bids, and which works for au...
Güleser K. Demir, Maria L. Gini
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Risk-averse auction agents
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
Yaxin Liu, Richard Goodwin, Sven Koenig
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
A New Perspective on Internet Security using Insurance
—Managing security risks in the Internet has so far mostly involved methods to reduce the risks and the severity of the damages. Those methods (such as firewalls, intrusion dete...
Jean-Chrysostome Bolot, Marc Lelarge
GECCO
2010
Springer
244views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Implicit fitness and heterogeneous preferences in the genetic algorithm
This paper takes an economic approach to derive an evolutionary learning model based entirely on the endogenous employment of genetic operators in the service of self-interested a...
Justin T. H. Smith
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
151views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Security and insurance management in networks with heterogeneous agents
Computer users express a strong desire to prevent attacks and to reduce the losses from computer and information security breaches. However, security compromises are common and wi...
Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, John Chuang