Abstract: In this paper a novel payment system for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) commerce transactions is presented. It implements electronic cash-based transactions, between buyers and merch...
Information systems development is regarded as a series of distributed activities aiming at allocating resources in order to promote the development and use of computer-based syst...
Online mechanism design (OMD) addresses the problem of sequential decision making in a stochastic environment with multiple self-interested agents. The goal in OMD is to make valu...
David C. Parkes, Satinder P. Singh, Dimah Yanovsky
Anytime algorithms, whose quality of results improves gradually as computation time increases, provide useful performance components for timecritical planning and control of robot...
Enhanced network services often involve preferential allocation of resources such as transmission capacity ("bandwidth") and buffer space to packets belonging to certain...
Kenneth L. Calvert, Srinivasan Venkatraman, Jim Gr...