http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/trust/index.html Making providers and users reveal their true intentions. reservations We describe a pricing structure for the provision of IT services that ensures trust without requiring repeated interactions between service providers and users. It does so by offering a pricing structure that elicits truthful reporting of quality of service (QoS) by providers while making them profitable. This mechanism also induces truth-telling on the part of users reserving the service. Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu and Li Zhang 2007-01-26 01:45:00 http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/reservations/reservation.pdf Expressing the true likelihood of using a reserved resource. reservations 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 true likelihoods that they will purchase a given resource. Users are also allowed to adjust their options as their likelihood changes. This scheme helps users save cost and the providers to plan ahead so as to reduce the risk of under-utilization and overbooking. The mechanism extracts revenue similar to that of a monopoly provider practicing temporal pricing discrimination with a user population whose preference distribution is known in advance. Fang Wu, Li Zhang, and Bernardo A. Huberman 2007-01-26 01:42:00 http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/swings (click link to view abstract) Scott Clearwater and Bernardo A. Huberman reservations 2007-01-01 00:00:00