Surfing as a real option

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information and Computation Economies, ICE 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 45-51

  Lukose, Rajan M ^a   Huberman, Bemardo A ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EXPECTED COSTS; EXPECTED VALUES; FINANCIAL ECONOMICS; HYPERMEDIA LINKS; INFORMATION FORAGING; INTERNET AGENTS; NORMATIVE MODELS; REAL OPTIONS PERSPECTIVES;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 3042514357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/288994.289003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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