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With the rapidly growing demand for the cloud services, a need for efficient methods to trade computing resources increases. Commonly used fixed-price model is not always the best approach for trading cloud resources, because of its…

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The problem of market clearing is to set a price for an item such that quantity demanded equals quantity supplied. In this work, we cast the problem of predicting clearing prices into a learning framework and use the resulting models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Weiran Shen , Sébastien Lahaie , Renato Paes Leme

Theory of Computing (ToC) is an important course in CS curricula because of its connections to other CS courses as a foundation for them. Traditional ToC course grading schemes are mostly exam-based, and sometimes a small weight for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Ryan E. Dougherty

The quality and correct functioning of software components embedded in electronic systems are of utmost concern especially for safety and mission-critical systems. Model-based testing and formal verification techniques can be employed to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Shahbaz Ali , Hailong Sun , Yongwang Zhao

Traditional competitive markets do not account for negative externalities; indirect costs that some participants impose on others, such as the cost of over-appropriating a common-pool resource (which diminishes future stock, and thus…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Panayiotis Danassis , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Haipeng Chen , Milind Tambe , Boi Faltings

Advancements in digitization have enabled two sided manufacturing-as-a-service (MaaS) marketplaces which has significantly reduced product development time for designers. These platforms provide designers with access to manufacturing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Deepak Pahwa

Premised upon the observation that MOOC and crowdsourcing phenomena share several important characteristics, including IT mediation, large-scale human participation, and varying levels of openness to participants, this work systematizes a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-22 John Prpic , James Melton , Araz Taeihagh , Terry Anderson

We profiled three aspects of MOOCs from the perspective of viewing behaviors, the most prominent and common ones of MOOC learning. They were learner classification, course attraction, teaching order and learning order. Based on viewing…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-04-16 Zheng Xie , Xiao Xiao , Jianping Li , Jinying Su

The shortage of people trained in STEM fields is becoming acute, and universities and colleges are straining to satisfy this demand. In the case of computer science, for instance, the number of US students taking introductory courses has…

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become increasingly popular worldwide. However, learners primarily rely on watching videos, easily losing knowledge context and reducing learning effectiveness. We propose HyperMOOC, a novel approach…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Li Ye , Lei Wang , Lihong Cai , Ruiqi Yu , Yong Wang , Yigang Wang , Wei Chen , Zhiguang Zhou

Bottlenecks such as the latency in correcting assignments and providing a grade for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) could impact the levels of interest among learners. In this proposal for an auto-grading system, we present a method to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Swapneel Mehta , Chirag Raman , Nitin Ayer , Sameer Sahasrabudhe

The word E transformed everything is this world, as well as the whole globe itself. To a great extend this helps for eco friendly green world. In educational field, electronic medium has played a major role. It influenced and changed almost…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-04-09 R. D. Balaji , Fatma Al-Mahri , Tarek Al-Fatnaasi

Pricing insurance for risks associated with information technology systems presents a complex modelling challenge, combining the disciplines of operations management, security, and economics. This work proposes a socioeconomic modelling…

General Economics · Economics 2023-10-05 Henry Skeoch , David Pym

Pricing advanced data products - particularly in complex fields such as semiconductor manufacturing - is a fundamentally challenging task due to the sparsity of publicly available transaction data, and its frequent heterogeneity and…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-03 Adam L. Siemiatkowski , Victor Zhirnov , Kashyap Yellai , Gabriella Bein , Terresa Zimmerman

We study an online learning problem on dynamic pricing and resource allocation, where we make joint pricing and inventory decisions to maximize the overall net profit. We consider the stochastic dependence of demands on the price, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianyu Xu , Xuan Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Jiashuo Jiang

Blockchain is a challenging topic since it is novel and fosters potential innovation. The blockchain is attractive for various disciplines, and, because of its cross-cutting nature, needs knowledge stemming from various disciplines. The…

The objective of this paper is to introduce the theory of option pricing for markets with informed traders within the framework of dynamic asset pricing theory. We introduce new models for option pricing for informed traders in complete…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-08-13 Yuan Hu , Abootaleb Shirvani , Stoyan Stoyanov , Young Shin Kim , Frank J. Fabozzi , Svetlozar T. Rachev

Most education and workplace learning takes place in classroom contexts far removed from laboratories or field sites with special arrangements for scientific research. But digital online resources provide a novel opportunity for large scale…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Joseph Jay Williams , Juho Kim , Brian C. Keegan

We investigate the design of pricing policies that enhance driver adherence to route guidance, ensuring effective routing control. The major novelty lies in that we adopt a Markov chain to model drivers' compliance rates conditioned on both…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Yu Tang , Kaan Ozbay , Li Jin