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MANSCI
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
Strategic Manipulation of Internet Opinion Forums: Implications for Consumers and Firms
There is growing evidence that consumers are influenced by Internet-based opinion forums before making a variety of purchase decisions. Firms whose products are being discussed in...
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
IAT
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Introducing Communication in Dis-POMDPs with Finite State Machines
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (DisPOMDPs) are emerging as a popular approach for modeling sequential decision making in teams operating under uncertain...
Yuki Iwanari, Makoto Tasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Atsushi...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
On the Market Power of Network Coding in P2P Content Distribution Systems
Abstract—Network coding is emerging as a promising alternative to traditional content distribution approaches in P2P networks. By allowing information mixture in peers, it simpli...
Xinyu Zhang, Baochun Li
WINE
2009
Springer
178views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
15 years 5 months ago
Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman
CDC
2008
IEEE
132views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
A distributed auction algorithm for the assignment problem
— The assignment problem constitutes one of the fundamental problems in the context of linear programming. Besides its theoretical significance, its frequent appearance in the a...
Michael M. Zavlanos, Leonid Spesivtsev, George J. ...