We envision a future economy where e-markets will play an essential role as exchange hubs for commodities and services. Future e-markets should be designed to be robust to manipulation, flexible, and sufficiently efficient in facilitating exchanges. One of the most important aspects of designing an e-market is market mechanism design. A market mechanism defines the organization, information exc...

Demand for blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum is far larger than supply, necessitating a mechanism that selects subset of transactions to include "on-chain" from the pool all pending transactions. EIP-1559 proposal make several tightly coupled changes blockchain's transaction fee mechanism, including introduction variable-size blocks burned base rises falls with demand. These are slated d...

Since Network-on-Chip (NoC) uses network interfaces (NIs) to improve the design productivity, by now, there have been a few papers addressing the design and implementation of a NI module. However, none of them considered the difference of address encoding methods between NoC and the traditional bus-shared architecture. On the basis of this difference, in the paper, we introduce a transmit mecha...

As the number of systems which offer annotations on digital documents increases, robust anchoring of annotations is a key challenge. It is especially important if the annotator lacks write-access to the document being annotated. For example, if someone makes an annotation on a web page today and the web page changes tomorrow, what happens to the annotation? One approach is simply to “orphan” th...

We design an efficient and transaction cost reducing Vickrey-Clarke-Groves auction as part of a web service for the work allocation problem in temporary employment agencies. In this auction bids are work contracts with multidimensional salaries. To compute the allocation we assume that every temporary employment worker conveys a utility function specifying the utility gained from working a give...

This paper presents a new type of haptic device using spherical geometry. The basic idea of haptic devices is to provide users with feedback information on the motion and/or force that he or she generates. Haptic devices have several potential applications, such as for example, fine compliant assembly, VR environment simulation and high precision teleoperation, especially in hazardous or hostil...

Response surface methodology with Box–Benhken (BB) design of experiment approach has been utilized to study the mechanism of interface slip damping in layered and jointed tack welded beams with varying surface roughness. The design utilizes the initial amplitude of excitation, tack length and surface roughness at the interfaces to develop the model for the logarithmic damping decrement of the l...

Considering the design of universally designed interfaces for static and dynamic web pages, this work focuses on the group of users with cognitive/intellectual disabilities, while simultaneously accounting for the needs of users with motor and sensory deficits. A number of specific inclusive techniques are applied to the login mechanism of a web service in the course of the redesign of this sit...