Economics - Microsoft Research

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Blurring livelihoods and lives: The social uses of mobile phones and socioeconomic development

Jonathan Donner

Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization | January 2009, Vol 4: pp. 91-101

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Mechanism Design for Network Virtualization

Muntasir Raihan Rahman

| January 2009

Published by University of Waterloo

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A Computational Theory of Awareness and Decision Making

Nikhil Devanur, Nikhil R. Devanur, Lance Fortnow

Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, TARK | January 2009

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The Cost of Stability in Network Flow Games

Ezra Resnick, Yoram Bachrach, Reshef Meir, Jeff Rosenschein

MFCS 2009 | January 2009

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Convergence of Local Dynamics to Balanced Outcomes in Exchange Networks

Yossi Azar, Benjamin Birnbaum, L. Elisa Celis, Nikhil Devanur, Yuval Peres

In Proc. FOCS 2009 | January 2009

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The Adwords Problem: Online Keyword Matching with Budgeted Bidders under Random Permutations

Nikhil Devanur, Thomas P. Hayes

ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce | January 2009

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Budget Constrained Bidding in Keyword Auctions and Online Knapsack Problems

Yunhong Zhou, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Rajan Lukose

WINE ’08 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, Shanghai, China | December 2008

ISBN: 978-3-540-92184-4

Project

Multi-Armed Bandits

This is an umbrella project for several related efforts at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley that address various Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) formulations motivated by web search and ad placement. The MAB problem is a classical paradigm…

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Tied Boltzmann Machines for Cold Start Recommendations

Asela Gunawardana, Christopher Meek, Chris Meek

ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems | October 2008

ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems

Microsoft Research Blog

Innovation Inquiries: The Birth of a Research Lab

September 22, 2008

By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Since Microsoft Research New England was announced on Feb. 4, Jennifer Chayes, managing director of the lab, based in Cambridge, Mass., has been hard at work along with…