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Simple Pricing Schemes for the Cloud
Ian A. Kash, Peter Key, Warut Suksompong
The problem of pricing the cloud has attracted much recent attention due to the widespread use of cloud computing and cloud services. From a theoretical perspective, several mechan…
The architecture of innovation: Tracking face-to-face interactions with ubicomp technologies
Chloë Brown, Christos Efstratiou, Ilias Leontiadis +4
The layouts of the buildings we live in shape our everyday lives. In office environments, building spaces affect employees' communication, which is crucial for productivity and inn…
Optimising Trade-offs Among Stakeholders in Ad Auctions
Yoram Bachrach, Sofia Ceppi, Ian A. Kash +2
We examine trade-offs among stakeholders in ad auctions. Our metrics are the revenue for the utility of the auctioneer, the number of clicks for the utility of the users and the we…
Efficient Advert Assignment
Frank Kelly, Peter Key, Neil Walton
We develop a framework for the analysis of large-scale Ad-auctions where adverts are assigned over a continuum of search types. For this pay-per-click market, we provide an efficie…
Ranking and Tradeoffs in Sponsored Search Auctions
Ben Roberts, Dinan Gunawardena, Ian A. Kash +1
In a sponsored search auction, decisions about how to rank ads impose tradeoffs between objectives such as revenue and welfare. In this paper, we examine how these tradeoffs should…
Budget Optimization for Sponsored Search: Censored Learning in MDPs
Kareem Amin, Michael Kearns, Peter Key +1
We consider the budget optimization problem faced by an advertiser participating in repeated sponsored search auctions, seeking to maximize the number of clicks attained under that…
Fixed and Market Pricing for Cloud Services
Vineet Abhishek, Ian A. Kash, Peter Key
We study a model of congestible resources, where pricing and scheduling are intertwined. Motivated by the problem of pricing cloud instances, we model a cloud computing service as…