UMDL Subgroup on Intellectual Property and Economic Issues (IPE)

Publications

• The digital library as community of information agents (MP Wellman, WP Birmingham, and EH Durfee). IEEE Expert11(3):10-11, June 1996.
• Toward inquiry-based education through interacting software agents (DE Atkins, WP Birmingham, EH Durfee, E Glover, T Mullen, EA Rundensteiner, E Soloway, JM Vidal, R Wallace, MP Wellman). IEEE Computer29(5):69-76, May 1996. [special issue on the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative] [extended draft version]
• A simple computational market for network information services (T Mullen and MP Wellman). First International Conference on Multiagent Systems, June 1995.

Working Papers

• An axiomatic approach to evaluating and selecting digital payment mechanisms (JK MacKie-Mason and K White). To be presented at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, October 1996.
• Market-based negotiation for digital library services (T Mullen and MP Wellman). To be presented at the Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce, November 1996.

Design Documents

• Intellectual property rights specification

Other Relevant IPE Works

• Economics of Electronic Publishing (C Day). Presented at the AAUP/ARL Symposium on Electronic Publishing, November 1993.
• Some FAQs about Usage-Based Pricing (JK MacKie-Mason and HR Varian).
• Pricing the Internet (JK MacKie-Mason and HR Varian). Presented at the Conference: Public Access to the Internet, May 1993 (paper updated Feb 94).
• Economic resource allocation (extract from the original UMDL proposal)