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WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak
ISCI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
A tool for design pattern detection and software architecture reconstruction
It is well known that software maintenance and evolution are expensive activities, both in terms of invested time and money. Reverse engineering activities support the obtainment ...
Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Marco Zanoni
PODC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Mechanism design for policy routing
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for interdomain routing is designed to allow autonomous systems (ASes) to express policy preferences over alternative routes. We model these pref...
Joan Feigenbaum, Rahul Sami, Scott Shenker
ICALP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Power of Verification for One-Parameter Agents
We initiate the study of mechanisms with verification for one-parameter agents. We give an algorithmic characterization of such mechanisms and show that they are provably better ...
Vincenzo Auletta, Roberto De Prisco, Paolo Penna, ...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Design and implementation of an "approximate" communication system for wireless media applications
All practical wireless communication systems are prone to errors. At the symbol level such wireless errors have a well-defined structure: when a receiver decodes a symbol erroneou...
Sayandeep Sen, Syed Gilani, Shreesha Srinath, Step...