Every day millions of crowdsourcing tasks are performed in exchange for payments. Despite
the important role pricing plays in crowdsourcing campaigns and the complexity of the …

Auction-style pricing policies can effectively reflect the underlying trends in demand and
supply for the cloud resources, and thereby attracted a research interest recently. In …

This handbook provides an up-to-date compendium of fundamental computer science
topics, techniques, and applications. Along with updating and revising many of the existing …

In recent years, prominent blockchain systems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have
experienced explosive growth in transaction volume, leading to frequent surges in demand …

Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stop**
theory—particularly secretary problems—in the design of approximately optimal online …

Neither traffic engineering nor fixed prices (eg, $/GB) alone fully address the challenges of
highly utilized inter-datacenter WANs. The former offers more service to users who overstate …

Cloud providers provision their various resources such as CPUs, memory, and storage in
the form of virtual machine (VM) instances which are then allocated to the users. The users …

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are expected to place a considerable strain on local
electricity distribution networks, requiring charging to be coordinated in order to …

Online mechanisms extend the methods of mechanism design to dynamic environments
with multiple agents and private information. Decisions must be made as information about …

The rapid proliferation of electric vehicles has resulted in a drastic increase in the total
energy demand of EVs. Given the limited charging rate capacity of charging stations and …