This work initiates the study of cost-sharing mechanisms that, in addition to the usual incentive compatibility conditions, make it disadvantageous for the users to employ pseudon...
Paolo Penna, Florian Schoppmann, Riccardo Silvestr...
We argue that users in social networks are strategic in how they post and propagate information. We propose two models — greedy and courteous — and study information propagatio...
Mangesh Gupte, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Lu Han, L...
We improve the best known competitive ratio (from 1/4 to 1/2), for the online multi-unit allocation problem, where the objective is to maximize the single-price revenue. Moreover, ...
Market players that can respond to critical market events faster than their competitors, will end up as winners in the emerging new economy. In order to win the next phase in the ...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a system of overlay networks such that participants can potentially take symmetrical roles. This translates itself into a design based on the philosophy of L...