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Ensuring Trust in One Time Exchanges: Solving the QoS Problem
Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu, Li Zhang
We describe a pricing structure for the provision of IT services that ensures trust without requiring repeated interactions between service providers and users. It does so by offer…
Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems
Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu
We describe an efficient incentive mechanism for P2P systems that generates a wide diversity of content offerings while responding adaptively to customer demand. Files are served a…
Management Fads, Pedagogies and Soft Technologies
Jonathan Bendor, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu
We present a model for the diffusion of management fads and other technologies which lack clear objective evidence about their merits. The choices made by non-Bayesian adopters ref…
The Dynamics of Viral Marketing
Jure Leskovec, Lada A. Adamic, Bernardo A. Huberman
We present an analysis of a person-to-person recommendation network, consisting of 4 million people who made 16 million recommendations on half a million products. We observe the p…
The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
Scott Golder, Bernardo A. Huberman
Collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on t…
Truth-telling Reservations
Fang Wu, Zi Zhang, Bernardo A. Huberman
We present a mechanism for reservations of bursty resources that is both truthful and robust. It consists of option contracts whose pricing structure induces users to reveal the tr…