Pay as you browse: Microcomputations as micropayments in web-based services

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 307-316

  Karame, Ghassan O ^a   Francillon, Aurélien ^a   Čapkun, Srdjan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Microcomputations; Micropayments; Monetization; Privacy

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING REVENUES; COMPUTING PROJECTS; MICROCOMPUTATIONS; MICROPAYMENTS; MONETIZATION; ON-LINE CONTENTS; ONLINE BUSINESS; SECURITY AND PRIVACY; SOCIAL BENEFITS; WEB-BASED SERVICE;

DATA PRIVACY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84873436227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963405.1963451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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