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AAAI
2011
14 years 13 days ago
Incentive-Compatible Escrow Mechanisms
The most prominent way to establish trust between buyers and sellers on online auction sites are reputation mechanisms. Two drawbacks of this approach are the reliance on the sell...
Jens Witkowski, Sven Seuken, David C. Parkes
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MANSCI
2006
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15 years 11 days ago
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang
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HYBRID
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Optimal Switches in Multi-inventory Systems
Given a switched multi–inventory system we wish to find the optimal schedule of the resets to maintain the system in a safe operating interval, while minimizing a function relat...
Dario Bauso
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CPM
2004
Springer
110views Combinatorics» more  CPM 2004»
15 years 5 months ago
On the k-Closest Substring and k-Consensus Pattern Problems
Given a set S = {s1, s2, . . . , sn} of strings each of length m, and an integer L, we study the following two problems. k-Closest Substring problem: find k center strings c1, c2,...
Yishan Jiao, Jingyi Xu, Ming Li
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QOFIS
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
BarterRoam: A Novel Mobile and Wireless Roaming Settlement Model
This paper describes BarterRoam: a new novel mobile and wireless roaming settlement model and clearance methodology, based on the concept of sharing and bartering excess capacities...
Eng Keong Lua, Alex Lin, Jon Crowcroft, Valerie Ta...