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Discouraging Pool Block Withholding Attacks in Bitcoins
Zhihuai Chen, Bo Li, Xiaohan Shan +2
The arisen of Bitcoin has led to much enthusiasm for blockchain research and block mining, and the extensive existence of mining pools helps its participants (i.e., miners) gain re…
Coreness of Cooperative Games with Truncated Submodular Profit Functions
Wei Chen, Xiaohan Shan, Xiaoming Sun +1
Coreness represents solution concepts related to core in cooperative games, which captures the stability of players. Motivated by the scale effect in social networks, economics and…
Randomized Mechanisms for Selling Reserved Instances in Cloud
Jia Zhang, Weidong Ma, Tao Qin +2
Selling reserved instances (or virtual machines) is a basic service in cloud computing. In this paper, we consider a more flexible pricing model for instance reservation, in which…
The Least-core and Nucleolus of Path Cooperative Games
Qizhi Fang, Bo Li, Xiaohan Shan +1
Cooperative games provide an appropriate framework for fair and stable profit distribution in multiagent systems. In this paper, we study the algorithmic issues on path cooperative…
Computing the Least-core and Nucleolus for Threshold Cardinality Matching Games
Qizhi Fang, Bo Li, Xiaoming Sun +2
Cooperative games provide a framework for fair and stable profit allocation in multi-agent systems. \emph{Core}, \emph{least-core} and \emph{nucleolus} are such solution concepts t…