In cyberspace, the emergence and increasing importance of search engine prompts numerous evaluation studies in regard to its effectiveness. Based on a user-oriented perspective, t...
This paper studies how consumers' online search behavior may trigger pervasive and persistent online price dispersion. We set up a game-theoretic model to examine the oligopo...
We present an algorithm that minimizes the expected cost of indirect binary search for data with non-constant access costs, such as disk data. Indirect binary search means that sor...
Eduardo F. Barbosa, Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo A. Ba...
In many two-sided search applications, autonomous agents can enjoy the advantage of parallel search, powered by their ability to handle an enormous amount of information, in a shor...
We present a proof procedure that is complete for first-order logic, but which can also be used when searching for finite models. The procedure uses a normal form which is based on...