Robit: An extensible auction-based market platform for challenged environments

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Reda, Azarias ^a   Duong, Quang ^a   Alperovich, Timur ^a   Noble, Brian ^a   Haile, Yidnekachew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HilCoE College   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUCTION THEORY; AUCTION-BASED MARKET; CHALLENGED NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION TOOLS; COMPETITIVE MARKETPLACE; CREDIT CARDS; DIGITAL SERVICES; INTERNET SALES; MARKET STRUCTURES; NETWORK PENETRATIONS; OPEN SOURCES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; USER STUDY;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SALES;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84867484956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2369220.2369257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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