We consider the problem of resource allocation and scheduling where information and decisions are decentralized, and our goal is to propose a market mechanism that allows resource...
Reputation systems have been popular in estimating the trustworthiness and predicting the future behavior of nodes in a large-scale distributed system where nodes may transact wit...
A transaction defines a locus of computation that satisfies important concurrency and failure properties; these so-called ACID properties provide strong serialization guarantees ...
Jan Vitek, Suresh Jagannathan, Adam Welc, Antony L...
Reputation mechanisms offer an efficient way of building the necessary level of trust in electronic markets. Feedback about an agent’s past behavior can be aggregated into a me...
—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...