2 papers
cs.GT2005
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…
cs.DC2005
A Price-Anticipating Resource Allocation Mechanism for Distributed Shared Clusters
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Li Zhang
In this paper we formulate the fixed budget resource allocation game to understand the performance of a distributed market-based resource allocation system. Multiple users decide h…