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Two-sided Learning in an Agent Economy for Information Bundles
(2000)
Commerce in information goods is one of the earliest emerging applications for intelligent agents in commerce. However, the fundamental characteristics of information goods mean that they can and likely will be offered in ...
Generalized Vickrey Auctions
(1994-07)
We describe a generalization of the Vickrey auction. Our mechanism extends the auction to implement efficient allocations for problems with more than one good, multiple units for the goods, and externalities. The primary ...
One Size Doesn't Fit All: Improving Network QoS Through Preference-driven Web Caching
(1999-08)
In order to combat Internet congestion Web caches use replacement policies that attempt to keep the objects in a cache that are most likely to get requested in the future. We adopt the economic perspective that the objects ...
Automated Strategy Searches in an Electronic Goods Market: Learning and Complex Price Schedules
(ACM Press, 1999-11)
In an automated market for electronic goods new problems arise that have not been well studied previously. For example, information goods are very flexible. Marginal costs are negligible and nearly limitless bundling and ...
Incentive-Centered Design for Information Security
(2006-07-31)
Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives provided to induce desired behavior. Sometimes these ...
Security When People Matter: Structuring Incentives For User Behavior
(2007)
Humans are “smart components” in a system, but cannot
be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy
must be respected as a design constraint and incentives
provided to induce desired behavior. Sometimes ...
Telephony, the Internet, and the Media
(1998)
This review essay introduces the 15 selected papers from the 25th Annual TPRC. We mention major telecoms policy highlights of 1997, then offer a light interpretative essay with summaries of the papers. We organize the ...
An AOL / Time Warner Merger Will Harm Competition in Internet Online Services
(2000-10)
America Online (AOL) is the largest, and in some aspects dominant, firm in the aggregation and distribution of content and services over the Internet. AOL is also the largest provider of Internet access in the U.S. Overall, ...
Pricing Congestible Resources
(1995)
We describe the basic economic theory of pricing a congestible resource such as an ftp server, a router, a Web site, etc. In particular, we examine the implications of "congestion pricing" as a way to encourage efficient ...