Experiments in designing computational economies for mobile users

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-34

  Mullen, Tracy ^a   Breese, Jack ^b  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; MARKETING; MOBILE COMPUTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMIES; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE ALLOCATION; MARKET BASED DESIGN; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033872579     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(99)00072-X     Document Type: Article

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