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ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Some Economics of Market-Based Distributed Scheduling
Market mechanisms solve distributed scheduling problems by allocating the scheduled resources according to market prices. We model distributed scheduling as a discrete resource al...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman, Peter R. Wur...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Interactions between market barriers and communication networks in marketing systems
We investigate a framework where agents search for satisfying products by using referrals from other agents. Our model of a mechanism for transmitting word-of-mouth and the result...
Ian N. Durbach, Jan H. Hofmeyr
AAAI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities
Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal on...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Tu...
IAT
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 days ago
Market-Based Distributed Task Selection in Multi-agent Swarms
We consider the problem of distributed task allocation across swarm units comprising a swarm-based system. We model task allocation as a dynamic pricing problem within a market se...
Prithviraj Dasgupta, Matthew Hoeing
AXMEDIS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 10 days ago
The Use of Incentive Mechanisms in Multi-Channel Mobile Music Distribution
The music industry is planning to perform a significant shift toward the digital world by partnering cellphone network operators to build a mobile music market. In this paper we ...
Marco Furini, Manuela Montangero