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Designing tree-structured organizations for computational agents
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-09)
We describe a framework for defining the space of organization designs for computational agents, use our framework for analyzing the expected performance of a class of organizations, and describe how our analyses can be ...
Economics and Electronic Access to Scholarly Information
(MIT Press, 1997-05-19)
Dramatic increases in the capabilities of computers and communication networks, accompanied by equally dramatic decreases in cost, have fomented revolutionary thoughts in the scholarly publishing community. This paper ...
Selecting Microfilm for Digital Preservation
(American Library Association, 1996-01)
Project Open Book is Yale University Library's multiyear, multifaceted study exploring the feasibility of converting preservation microfilm to digital imagery and enhancing both physical and intellectual access to the ...
Toward a theory of honesty and trust among communicating autonomous agents
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-09)
This article outlines, through a number of examples, a method that can be used by autonomous agents to decide among potential messages to send to other agents, without having to assume that a message must be truthful and ...
Biased Replacement Policies for Web Caches: Differential Quality-of-Service and Aggregate User Value
(1999)
Disk space in shared Web caches can be diverted to serve some system users at the expense of others. Cache hits reduce server loads, and if servers desire load reduction to different degrees, a replacement policy which ...
Pricing the Internet
(MIT Press, 1995)
We describe the technology and costs of the Internet, then discuss how to design efficient pricing in order to allocate scarce Internet resources. We offer a "smart market" as a device to efficiently price congestion.
Competition Between Firms that Bundle
(1999-08)
Information goods are characterized by high fixed (first-copy) costs, but very low costs for the production of additional copies. Marginal costs of electronically-delivered information goods have been further reduced by ...