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Strategic behavior and learning in all-pay auctions: an empirical study using crowdsourced data
We analyze human behavior in crowdsourcing contests using an all-pay auction model where all participants exert effort, but only the highest bidder receives the reward. We let workers sourced from Amazon Mecha...
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Chapter
State of the Art and Research Challenges in the Area of Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services
The explosive growth of the Internet has fundamentally changed the global society. The emergence of concepts like service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS)...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Simple Pricing Schemes for the Cloud
The problem of pricing the cloud has attracted much recent attention due to the widespread use of cloud computing and cloud services. From a theoretical perspective, several mechanisms that provide strong effi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Collusion in VCG Path Procurement Auctions
We consider collusion in path procurement auctions, where payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show that collusion can increase the utility of the agents, and in some cases they can extract any ...
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Article
Fluid models of integrated traffic and multipath routing
In this paper we consider a stochastic model describing the varying number of flows in a network. This model features flows of two types, namely file transfers (with fixed volume) and streaming traffic (with f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cooperation and QoS in Fast Packet Networks: The View from the Edge
The fundamental architecture of the current generation Internet has changed little over the past two decades. This is a problem when services need to be introduced that require something more than basic point-...
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Article
Fair internet traffic integration: network flow models and analysis
We use flow-level models to study the integration of two types of Internet traffic, elastic file transfers and streaming traffic. Previous studies have concentrated on just one type of traffic, such as the flo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Network Characteristics: Modelling, Measurements, and Admission Control
Round trip delays constitute the basic network measure that can be obtained by end systems without any network support. Our aim is to design measurement-based admission control strategies for streaming applica...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Resource Allocation with Persistent and Transient Flows
The flow control algorithms currently used in the Internet have been tailored to share bandwidth between users on the basis of the physical characteristics of the network links they use rather than the charact...
