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ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Reducing costly information acquisition in auctions
Most research on auctions assumes that potential bidders have private information about their willingness to pay for the item being auctioned, and that they use this information s...
Kate Larson
IUI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Fewer clicks and less frustration: reducing the cost of reaching the right folder
Helping computer users rapidly locate files in their folder hierarchies has become an important research topic in today’s intelligent user interface design. This paper reports o...
Xinlong Bao, Jonathan L. Herlocker, Thomas G. Diet...
ICDIM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Citation auctions as a method to improve selection of scientific papers
This paper describes the basis of citation auctions that are introduced as a new approach to selecting scientific papers for publication. Unlike the state of the art in paper sele...
Josep Lluís de la Rosa, Boleslaw K. Szymans...
AMEC
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Choosing Samples to Compute Heuristic-Strategy Nash Equilibrium
Auctions define games of incomplete information for which it is often too hard to compute the exact Bayesian-Nash equilibrium. Instead, the infinite strategy space is often popu...
William E. Walsh, David C. Parkes, Rajarshi Das
ADC
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search.
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...