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SIGECOM
2004
ACM
132views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
A dynamic pari-mutuel market for hedging, wagering, and information aggregation
I develop a new mechanism for risk allocation and information speculation called a dynamic pari-mutuel market (DPM). A DPM acts as hybrid between a pari-mutuel market and a contin...
David M. Pennock
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Using persistent homology to recover spatial information from encounter traces
In order to better understand human and animal mobility and its potential effects on Mobile Ad-Hoc networks and Delay-Tolerant Networks, many researchers have conducted experiment...
Brenton D. Walker
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
125views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Information asymmetries in pay-per-bid auctions
Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...
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WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Secure or insure?: a game-theoretic analysis of information security games
Despite general awareness of the importance of keeping one's system secure, and widespread availability of consumer security technologies, actual investment in security remai...
Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, John Chuang
KDD
2012
ACM
222views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
13 years 6 days ago
Rise and fall patterns of information diffusion: model and implications
The recent explosion in the adoption of search engines and new media such as blogs and Twitter have facilitated faster propagation of news and rumors. How quickly does a piece of ...
Yasuko Matsubara, Yasushi Sakurai, B. Aditya Praka...