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SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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16 years 22 days ago
Eliciting truthful answers to multiple-choice questions
Motivated by the prevalence of online questionnaires in electronic commerce, and of multiple-choice questions in such questionnaires, we consider the problem of eliciting truthful...
Nicolas S. Lambert, Yoav Shoham
OTM
2007
Springer
16 years 11 days ago
Elaborating a Decentralized Market Information System
A Decentralized Market Information System (DMIS) that aggregates and provides information about markets is an important component for achieving markets in Grid and Peer-to-Peer sys...
René Brunner, Felix Freitag
AUSAI
1997
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Social Co-ordination among Autonomous Problem-Solving Agents
Co-ordination is the glue that binds the activities of autonomous problem-solving agents together into a functional whole. Co-ordination mechanisms for distributed problem-solving ...
Sascha Ossowski, Ana García-Serrano
IJCAI
2001
15 years 7 months ago
CABOB: A Fast Optimal Algorithm for Combinatorial Auctions
Combinatorial auctions where bidders can bid on bundles of items can lead to more economical allocations, but determining the winners is NP-complete and inapproximable. We present...
Tuomas Sandholm, Subhash Suri, Andrew Gilpin, Davi...
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Mobility helps security in ad hoc networks
Contrary to the common belief that mobility makes security more difficult to achieve, we show that node mobility can, in fact, be useful to provide security in ad hoc networks. We...
Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Levente Buttyán, Srdjan...