This paper provides a state-of-the-art literature review on economic analysis and pricing
models for data collection and wireless communication in Internet of Things (IoT). Wireless …

Sponsored search has been proven to be a successful business model, and sponsored
search auctions have become a hot research direction. There have been many exciting …

Participation in permissionless blockchains results in competition over system resources,
which needs to be controlled with fees. Until recently, Ethereum's fee mechanism was …

Sponsored search auctions constitute one of the most successful applications of
microeconomic mechanisms. In mechanism design, auctions are usually designed to …

Cloud providers must dynamically allocate their physical resources to the right client to
maximize the benefit that they can get out of given hardware. Cache Allocation Technology …

Online advertising campaigns have attracted the attention of many advertisers willing to
promote their business on the Internet. One of the main problems faced by advertisers …

Prophet inequalities bound the reward of an online algorithm—or gambler—relative to the
optimum offline algorithm—the prophet—in settings that involve making selections from a …

Physical memory is the scarcest resource in today's cloud computing platforms. Cloud
providers would like to maximize their clients' satisfaction by renting precious physical …

Online e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon and Taobao, connect thousands of sellers
and consumers every day. In this work, we study how such platforms should rank products …

Some of the world's most well-known IT companies are in fact advertising companies
deriving their primary revenues through digital advertising. For this reason, these IT giants …