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This paper experimentally examines the behaviour of mobile software agents (MAs) as they use various contribution strategies towards the provision of a threshold public good. By combining the e-commerce and economics elements of the contribution game together with MA technology we present an effective tool for analysis of these elements. Through use of this tool we have produced a large set of ...

Biographical notes: Jayashree Watal is a Fellow of the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Research, New Delhi, and Visiting Fellow of the Institute for International Economics, Washington DC. She was Director, Trade Policy Division, Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi. Watal was responsible for TRIPS negotiations in the Uruguay Round from 1989-91. She has recently completed a com...

Thi r tytwo faculty members will present the courses of instruction in education and arts. Thir teen visiting instructors will serve on the summer session faculty. They will include: Dr. Joseph Kirk Folsom. professor of economics and sociology, a t Vassar, Professor Arlie E. McGulre, head of the depar tment of j education at the Concord Sta le normal school, Athens, West Virginia, Donald M. Tow...

The allocation of discrete, complementary resources is a fundamental problem in economics and of direct interest to e-commerce applications. In this paper we establish that competitive equilibrium bundle prices always exist that support the efficient allocation in discrete resource allocation problems with free disposal. We believe that this is an important step in the quest for a mechanism tha...

* This study was undertaken as part of the Social Policy Research Services Contract with the Australian Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS). Central to the study are the data in the confidentialised unit record file from FaCS’ Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, which is managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research...

Mechanism design, an important tool in microeconomics, has found widespread applications in modelling and solving decentralized design problems in many branches of engineering, notably computer science, electronic commerce, and network economics. In the first part of this tutorial on mechanism design (Garg et al 2008), we looked into the key notions and classical results in mechanism design the...

The last two years have seen a rapid development of the use of the Internet in doing economic transactions (E-Commerce). Now that the euphoria has subsided, it is necessary to closely examine which E-Commerce applications will remain and why. Our paper will focus on Electronic B2B Marketplaces. We first define and classify this category of e-commerce and present the value generating models depl...

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Preferences have been studied in philosophy, economics, psychology, and computer science and have a wide range of applications, such as e-commerce, recommender systems, decision support systems, and control of automated systems. A variety of methods have been proposed for modeling preferences. The one that I consider here is that of conditional preference networks (CP-nets). First studied by Bo...