Existing information, knowledge and content infrastructures are currently facing challenging problems in terms of scalability, management and integration of various content and services. The latest technology trends, including Semantic Web Services, Grid computing and Intelligent Content Objects...

Studies on mechanism design mostly focus on a single market where sellers and buyers trade. This paper examines the problem of mechanism design for capacity allocation in two connected markets where a supplier allocates products to a set of retailers and the retailers resale the products to...