Article ID: | iaor20104594 |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 458 |
End Page Number: | 478 |
Publication Date: | May 2010 |
Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
Authors: | Vazirani Vijay V |
The notion of a ‘market’ has undergone a paradigm shift with the Internet. Totally new and highly successful markets have been defined and launched by Internet companies, which already form an important part of today's economy and are projected to grow considerably in the future. Another major change is the availability of massive computational power for running these markets in a centralized or distributed manner.