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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2006, held in Patras, Greece in December 2006. It contains 32 papers that contain foundational and mathematical work for solving problems in internet technologies, grid computing, network communication protocols, as well as social economic issues in virtual communities enabled through the World Wide Web.

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Author:   Paul Spirakis ,  Marios Mavronicolas ,  Spyros Kontogiannis
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2006 ed.
Volume:   4286
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9783540681380

ISBN 10:   3540681388
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   27 November 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Recent Developments in Learning and Competition with Finite Automata (Extended Abstract).- Dynamic Mechanism Design.- Unconditional Competitive Auctions with Copy and Budget Constraints.- Truthful Auctions with Optimal Profit.- Mechanisms with Verification for Any Finite Domain.- Pure Nash Equilibria in Player-Specific and Weighted Congestion Games.- On the Complexity of Pure-Strategy Nash Equilibria in Congestion and Local-Effect Games.- Strong and Correlated Strong Equilibria in Monotone Congestion Games.- The Equilibrium Existence Problem in Finite Network Congestion Games.- First-Passage Percolation on a Width-2 Strip and the Path Cost in a VCG Auction.- Optimal Cost-Sharing Mechanisms for Steiner Forest Problems.- Mechanisms to Induce Random Choice.- Bayesian Optimal No-Deficit Mechanism Design.- Succinct Approximation of Trade-Off Curves.- Game-Theoretic Aspects of Designing Hyperlink Structures.- Competing for Customers in a Social Network: The Quasi-linear Case.- Selfish Service Installation in Networks.- Games of Connectivity.- Assignment Problems in Rental Markets.- On Portfolio’s Default-Risk-Adjusted Duration and Value: Model and Algorithm Based on Copulas.- Price Roll-Backs and Path Auctions: An Approximation Scheme for Computing the Market Equilibrium.- New Results on Rationality and Strongly Polynomial Time Solvability in Eisenberg-Gale Markets.- Making Economic Theory Operational.- Sparse Games Are Hard.- Market Equilibria with Hybrid Linear-Leontief Utilities.- Polynomial Algorithms for Approximating Nash Equilibria of Bimatrix Games.- A Note on Approximate Nash Equilibria.- Ranking Sports Teams and the Inverse Equal Paths Problem.- Price of Anarchy for Polynomial Wardrop Games.- Wardrop Equilibria and Price of Stability for Bottleneck Games withSplittable Traffic.- A Worm Propagation Model Based on People’s Email Acquaintance Profiles.- Mixed Strategies in Combinatorial Agency.- The Sound of Silence: Mining Implicit Feedbacks to Compute Reputation.- Strongly Polynomial-Time Truthful Mechanisms in One Shot.- Secretary Problems with Competing Employers.

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