today, e-commerce has considerable portion in commercial businesses, and it has been developing. one of the most important steps in e-commerce is e-payment that has been done through different tools such as e-banking, and e-cheques. in this type of electronic transactions, there are always different worries both for payers and payees due to untruthfulness. for example, amount modifying, date mo...

In this paper we study optimization problems with verifiable one-parameter selfish agents introduced by Auletta et al. [ICALP 2004]. Our goal is to allocate load among the agents, provided that the secret data of each agent is a single positive real number: the cost they incur per unit load. In such a setting the payment is given after the load completion, therefore if a positive load is assign...

There have been a lot of results which illustrate that knowledge anxiety is an important reason payment, however, its specific mechanism still needs to be deepened, and whether payment has effects on mentality in return also further research. Specifically, this paper deepens the expert system theory, one Giddens' disembedding mechanisms, reveals stepped theory (SEST) contains inherent contradic...

This paper analyzes and compares the incentive properties of some common payment mechanisms for GPs, namely fee for service (FFS), capitation and fundholding. It focuses on gatekeeping GPs and it specifically recognizes GPs heterogeneity in both ability and altruism. It also allows inappropriate care by GPs to lead to more serious illnesses. The results are as follows. Capitation is the payment...

A single object is for sale to N asymmetric buyers in the independent private values setting by means of an English auction. We consider implications of seller’s active participation in the bidding process, or shill bidding. The main result is that there exists an equilibrium of the English auction with shill bidding that is outcome equivalent to the optimal mechanism of Myerson (1981). Thus, a...

This paper explores Thompson sampling in the context of mechanism design for stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) problems. The setting is that of an MAB problem where the reward distribution of each arm consists of a stochastic component as well as a strategic component. Many existing MAB mechanisms use upper confidence bound (UCB) based algorithms for learning the parameters of the reward dist...

mobile commerce is whatever electronic transfer or transaction via a mobile modem through a mobile net in which the true value or advance payment is done for goods, services or information. a mobile payment system should be beneficial for all related persons. for a payment system to be a successful system, end-user, seller, exporter and operators should see a additional value in it. end-user pr...

We study cost-sharing games in real-time scheduling systems where the server’s activation cost every time slot is a function of its load. focus on monomial functions and consider both case when degree less than one (inducing positive congestion effect for jobs) it greater negative jobs). For former case, we provide tight bounds price anarchy, show that anarchy grows to infinity as polynomial nu...

The process of distributing and coordinating parallel workloads across many computation or storage nodes is a hard scheduling optimization problem. Furthermore, in distributed systems where nodes require monetary incentive-based payment schemes to schedule workloads efficiently and fairly, or a central coordinator might not have enough information to make the best system-wide decisions, framing...

BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket spending (OOPS) is the major payment strategy for healthcare in Nigeria. Hence, the paper assessed the determinants socio-economic status (SES) of OOPS and strategies for coping with payments for healthcare in urban, semi-urban and rural areas of southeast Nigeria. This paper provides information that would be required to improve financial accessibility and equity in fi...