On line markets for distributed object services: The MAJIC system

3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, USITS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Levy, Lior ^a   Blumrosen, Liad ^a   Nisan, Noam ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS; DISTRIBUTED SERVICE; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC MECHANISMS; EFFICIENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION; GENERAL PURPOSE ARCHITECTURES; MULTIPLE PARAMETERS; RESOURCE OWNERS;

ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33745162784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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