Recommender Systems belong to a class of systems intended to assist individuals make evaluations about entities in meaningful ways. In this paper we discuss the issues in the desi...
This note discusses briefly some questions on economics of privacy, especially the relation of privacy to price discrimination, as well as relevant developments in ecommerce and o...
Once acquainted with the modern information and communication tools made available with the advent of the Internet, five Brazilian rural communities participating in a pilot proje...
Marco A. Figueiredo, Paola Prado, Mauro A. Câ...
We construct a novel agent-based model of prediction markets in which putative human qualities like learning, reasoning, and profit-seeking are absent. We show that the prices whi...
We study principled methods for incorporating user utility into the selection of sponsored search ads. We describe variations of the GSP allocation/pricing mechanism that accommod...