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A Market-Based Approach to Optimal Resource Allocation in Integrated-Services connection-Oriented Networks
(2002-07)
We present an approach to the admission control and resource allocation problem in connection-oriented networks that offer multiple services to users. Users' preferences are summarized by means of their utility functions, ...
Model Selection in an Information Economy: Choosing what to Learn
(2002-11)
In an economy in which a producer must learn the preferences of a consumer population, it is faced with a classic decision problem: when to explore and when to exploit. If the producer has a limited number of chances to ...
A family of supermodular Nash mechanisms implementing Lindahl allocations
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2002-06)
We present a family of mechanisms which implement Lindahl allocations in Nash equilibrium. With quasilinear utility functions this family of mechanisms are supermodular games, which implies that they converge to Nash ...
Archives, Memory, and Interfaces with the Past
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-03)
Archival interfaces are criticalnodes in archival systems where archivistsnegotiate and exercise power over theconstitution and representation of archives. Drawing on notions of interfaces from physical,technological, and ...
Antitrust Immunity for Refusals to Deal in (Intellectual) Property Is a Slippery Slope
(2002-07)
The Federal Circuit's decision in CSU v. Xerox1 has generated enormous controversy. However, there seems to be emerging agreement among both critics and supporters of the decision on a correct, narrow reading of the decision. ...
Links Between Vertically Related Markets: ITS v. Kodak
(2002)
In 1987 seventeen small companies filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Eastman Kodak Corporation, alleging that Kodak used its monopoly power over repair parts for its high-volume copiers and micrographics equipment in ...
Getting answers to natural language questions on the Web
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002)
Most popular search engines are not designed for answering natural language questions. However, when we asked hundreds of natural language questions of nine leading search engines, all retrieved at least one correct answer ...
What to do About Unilateral Refusals to License?
(2002)
There are well-known circumstances under which unilateral refusals to license will cause harm to competition, that is, will lower consumer welfare. However, when the strategy is profitable, refusals to license also increase ...
Editorial—A Survey of Research Questions for Intelligent Information Systems in Education
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-01)
Education is an application domain in which many research questions from Intelligent Information Systems may prove their worth. We discuss three themes in this editorial: distributed education and learner modeling, semantic ...
An Investigation of Software Scaffolds Supporting Modeling Practices
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-12)
Modeling of complex systems and phenomena is of value in science learning and is increasingly emphasised as an important component of science teaching and learning. Modeling engages learners in desired pedagogical activities. ...