STANFORD

CS 206
Technical Foundations of Electronic Commerce
Spring 2002


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A Description of Google Written by the Inventors (Sergey Brin and Larry Page):

"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine"

 

The Original Paper on "Hubs and Authorities":

J. Kleinberg, "Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment" J. ACM Sept., 1999, pp. 604-632.

 

Class Notes from a Data-Mining Class by Jeff Ullman:

Web Search (ps; pdf)

Association Rules and Frequent Itemsets (ps; pdf)

Low-Support, High-Correlation Mining (ps; pdf)

Clustering (ps; pdf)

More About Clustering (ps; pdf)

 

Reference Notes for Auction I and Auction II:

7          Introduction to Multi-agent Systems (Only Sections 7.3 and 7.4 are required; the rest is included just in case you are curious.)

 

Reference Papers for Auction I – V:

Required:

Last-minute Bidding, Roth & Ockenfels

Recommendation on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet, RFC 2309, Braden et al., pp. 1 – 10 (easy non-mathematical reading)

Pricing the Internet, Mackie-Mason & Varian, all except appendix

Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet, Odlyzko, all except appendix (which you can read if you want a quantitative analysis of a particular instance of PMP)

Optional:

Incentive Mechanisms for Smoothing, Leyton-Brown et al.

Pricing Computer Networks: Reshaping the Research Agenda, Shenker et al. (essentially a critique of a “smart market” approach)

Resource Pricing and the Evolution of Congestion Control, Gibbens and Kelly (influential but technical recent proposal, based on RED, that shows how to implement smart-maket-like scheme efficiently)

Greedy Combinatorial Auctions, Lehmann et al.

Making Greed Work in Networks, Shenker, section 1, 2, and 5 (feel free to skim section 3 and 4, which give the formal model and analysis)