A randomized protocol for signing contracts
Communications of the ACM
The economics of network management
Communications of the ACM
On power-law relationships of the Internet topology
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Optimal Pricing Strategy for New Products
Management Science
A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems
Communications of the ACM
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Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce
Dynamic Pricing with Limited Competitor Information in a Multi-Agent Economy
CooplS '02 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
A Hardware-Software Platform for Intrusion Prevention
Proceedings of the 37th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
A Point-Set Compression Heuristic for Fiber-Based Certificates of Authenticity
DCC '05 Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference
A New Product Growth for Model Consumer Durables
Management Science
Flexible OS support and applications for trusted computing
HOTOS'03 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 9
Reading between the lines: lessons from the SDMI challenge
SSYM'01 Proceedings of the 10th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 10
Tamper resistance: a cautionary note
WOEC'96 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Proceedings of the Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce - Volume 2
Off-line economies for digital media
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Applications of flexible pricing in business-to-business electronic commerce
IBM Systems Journal
Optimal Digital Content Distribution Strategy in the Presence of the Consumer-to-Consumer Channel
Journal of Management Information Systems
Reputation Tracking Procurement Auctions
ICCCI '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence. Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems
Multi-attribute auction model for agent-based content trading in telecom markets
KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part I
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Financial efficiency is the premier performance measure for most systems. Existing economic ecosystems for distribution of multimedia leave a lot to be desired: client-server platforms do not scale well resulting in substantial operational costs, whereas peer-to-peer platforms cannot police copyright control and are thus notorious for not being able to capitalize on its vast delivery potential. In this paper, we introduce an economic model that aims at predicting financial performance of both client-server and viral distribution systems for multimedia. The model consists of several probabilistic components: a global scale-free viral network of users and a localized user-behavior model that abstracts marketing, pricing, and executed transactions. The model uses simulation to predict relative economic behavior. In order to showcase our model, we compared the popular "on-line store" distribution system to the recently proposed off-line incentive-based viral ecosystem for multimedia. We also constructed an efficient dynamic pricing scheme and evaluated its performance in considered multimedia distribution scenarios.