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WPES
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The privacy cost of the second-chance offer
This paper examines a generalization of a two-stage game common on eBay: an ascending-price auction followed by price discrimination (the second chance offer). High bids in the a...
Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun, Poorvi L. Vora
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Pricing under Constraints in Access Networks: Revenue Maximization and Congestion Management
Abstract—This paper investigates pricing of Internet connectivity services in the context of a monopoly ISP selling broadband access to consumers. We first study the optimal com...
Prashanth Hande, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank...
AGENTS
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Shopbot Economics
Abstract. Shopbots are agents that search the Internet for information pertaining to the price and quality of goods or services. With the advent of shopbots, a dramatic reduction i...
Jeffrey O. Kephart, Amy R. Greenwald