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2005
Springer
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New Algorithms for Mining the Reputation of Participants of Online Auctions
The assessment of credibility and reputation of contractors in online auctions is the key issue in providing reliable environment for customer-to-customer e-commerce. Confident re...
Mikolaj Morzy
WINE
2005
Springer
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Economic Analysis of Networking Technologies for Rural Developing Regions
Abstract. Providing network connectivity to rural regions in the developing world is an economically challenging problem especially given the low income levels and low population d...
Shridhar Mubaraq Mishra, John Hwang, Dick Filippin...
WINE
2005
Springer
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Price of Anarchy, Locality Gap, and a Network Service Provider Game
In this paper, we define a network service provider game. We show that the price of anarchy of the defined game can be bounded by analyzing a local search heuristic for a related...
Nikhil R. Devanur, Naveen Garg, Rohit Khandekar, V...
WINE
2005
Springer
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A Graph-Theoretic Network Security Game
Consider a network vulnerable to viral infection. The system security software can guarantee safety only to a limited part of the network. Such limitations result from economy cos...
Marios Mavronicolas, Vicky G. Papadopoulou, Anna P...
WINE
2005
Springer
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A Cost Mechanism for Fair Pricing of Resource Usage
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...
Marios Mavronicolas, Panagiota N. Panagopoulou, Pa...
WINE
2005
Springer
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Walrasian Equilibrium: Hardness, Approximations and Tractable Instances
We study the complexity issues for Walrasian equilibrium in a special case of combinatorial auction, called single-minded auction, in which every participant is interested in only ...
Ning Chen, Atri Rudra
WINE
2005
Springer
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Experimental Evaluation of an eBay-Style Self-reporting Reputation Mechanism
Abstract. We experimentally studied the effects of a eBay-style selfreporting reputation mechanism in an double-sided exchange economy in which participants have the option of not...
Kay-Yut Chen, Tad Hogg
WINE
2005
Springer
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A Delay Pricing Scheme for Real-Time Delivery in Deadline-Based Networks
We introduce a novel delay pricing and charging scheme in deadline-based networks to support real-time data delivery. We study the delay performance observed by individual users wh...
Yanni Ellen Liu, Xiao Huan Liu
WINE
2005
Springer
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Economic Mechanisms for Shortest Path Cooperative Games with Incomplete Information
Abstract. In this paper we present a cooperative game theoretic interpretation of the shortest path problem. We consider a buying agent who has a budget to go from a specified sou...
T. S. Chandrashekar, Yadati Narahari
WINE
2005
Springer
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Click Fraud Resistant Methods for Learning Click-Through Rates
Abstract. In pay-per-click online advertising systems like Google, Overture, or MSN, advertisers are charged for their ads only when a user clicks on the ad. While these systems ha...
Nicole Immorlica, Kamal Jain, Mohammad Mahdian, Ku...