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Improving Learning Performance by Applying Economic Knowledge
(2004)
Digital information economies require information goods producers to learn how to position themselves within a potentially vast product space. Further, the topography of this space is often nonstationary, due to the ...
Exercising Market Power in Proprietary Aftermarkets
(2000)
In many recent antitrust cases, manufacturers of complex high-technology equipment have been accused of exercising market power in the sale of proprietary service or parts necessary to maintain the machines they produce. ...
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 ...
Why Share in Peer-to-Peer Networks?
(2008)
Prior theory and empirical work emphasize the enormous free-riding problem facing peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing networks. Nonetheless, many P2P networks thrive. We explore two possible explanations that do not rely on ...
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, ...
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.
Auction Protocols for Decentralized Scheduling
(2001)
Scheduling is the problem of allocating resources to alternate possible uses over designated periods of time. Several have proposed (and some have tried) market-based approaches to decentralized versions of the problem, ...