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ICDCS
1998
IEEE
15 years 3 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
15 years 5 months 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
15 years 2 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
15 years 5 months 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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15 years 5 months 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