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IEPOL
2010
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14 years 9 months ago
Piracy or promotion? The impact of broadband Internet penetration on DVD sales
ABSTRACT Digital computer networks represent a disruptive technology, with the potential to create or destroy economic value in established industries. These opportunities and chal...
Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang
CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Privacy-Enhanced Reputation-Feedback Methods to Reduce Feedback Extortion in Online Auctions
In this paper, we study methods for improving the utility and privacy of reputation scores for online auctions, such as used in eBay, so as to reduce the effectiveness of feedbac...
Michael T. Goodrich, Florian Kerschbaum
CCS
2011
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Fashion crimes: trending-term exploitation on the web
Online service providers are engaged in constant conflict with miscreants who try to siphon a portion of legitimate traffic to make illicit profits. We study the abuse of “tr...
Tyler Moore, Nektarios Leontiadis, Nicolas Christi...
PLDI
2009
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Efficiently and precisely locating memory leaks and bloat
Inefficient use of memory, including leaks and bloat, remain a significant challenge for C and C++ developers. Applications with these problems become slower over time as their wo...
Gene Novark, Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
POPL
2003
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Interprocedural compatibility analysis for static object preallocation
We present an interprocedural and compositional algorithm for finding pairs of compatible allocation sites, which have the property that no object allocated at one site is live at...
Ovidiu Gheorghioiu, Alexandru Salcianu, Martin C. ...