Contingent bids in auctions: Availability, commitment and pricing of computing as utility

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 3419-3428

  Bhargava, Hemant K ^a   Sundaresan, Shankar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUCTIONS; E-SERVICES; IBM (CO); RESOURCE UTILIZATION;

CONTRACTS; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OUTSOURCING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PRIVATIZATION; SECURITY OF DATA; SEMANTICS; X RAYS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 12344294411     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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