: Grid Services became a widely used technology for building service oriented applications. The Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) is the current standard used for building such...
We consider situations in which a decision-maker with a fixed budget faces a sequence of options, each with a cost and a value, and must select a subset of them online so as to ma...
Moshe Babaioff, Nicole Immorlica, David Kempe, Rob...
More and more services provided by Internet pose a problem of privacy and anonymity. One cryptographic tool that could be used for solving this problem is the group signature [1, 5...
Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems...
This paper reports on the design of a novel two-stage mechanism, based on strictly proper scoring rules, that motivates selfish rational agents to make a costly probabilistic estim...
Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Alex Rogers, Enrico H...