Resource allocation policies for personalization in content delivery sites

Information Systems Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-248

  Liu, Dengpan ^a   Sarkar, Sumit ^b   Sriskandarajah, Chelliah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Batching; Delay externality; Queueing; Recommendation systems; Scheduling; User profiling

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; WEBSITES;

BATCHING; DELAY EXTERNALITY; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES; PERSONALIZED INFORMATION; QUEUEING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION POLICY; USER PROFILING;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 77957326595     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0230     Document Type: Article

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