The paper formulates and investigates the aggregation problem for synthesized mediators of Web services (SWMs). An SWM is a finite-state transducer defined in terms of templates...
Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...
We explore the striking mathematical connections that exist between market scoring rules, cost function based prediction markets, and no-regret learning. We first show that any c...
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
A new generation of content delivery networks for live streaming, video on demand, and software updates takes advantage of a peer-to-peer architecture to reduce their operating co...