It is challenging to support the timeliness of realtime data service requests in data-intensive real-time applications such as online auction or stock trading, while maintaining t...
Recent work on BitTorrent has shown that the choke/unchoke mechanism implements an auction where each peer tries to induce other peers into "unchoking" it by uploading m...
Ben Leong, Youming Wang, Su Wen, Cristina Carbunar...
In a multi-armed bandit problem, an online algorithm chooses from a set of strategies in a sequence of n trials so as to maximize the total payoff of the chosen strategies. While ...
Identifying consumer preferences is a key challenge in customizing electronic commerce sites to individual users. The increasing availability of online social networks provides on...
AbstractAbstractAbstractAbstract Current Web-based electronic commerce systems are lacking in efficient electronic brokerage. However, brokerage plays an important role in many ele...