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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
ECCC
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
The Complexity of Rationalizing Matchings
Given a set of observed economic choices, can one infer preferences and/or utility functions for the players that are consistent with the data? Questions of this type are called r...
Shankar Kalyanaraman, Christopher Umans
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Know Thy Neighbor: Towards Optimal Mapping of Contacts to Social Graphs for DTN Routing
—Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) are networks of self-organizing wireless nodes, where end-to-end connectivity is intermittent. In these networks, forwarding decisions are generall...
Theus Hossmann, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Franck L...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
On the limits of dictatorial classification
In the strategyproof classification setting, a set of labeled examples is partitioned among multiple agents. Given the reported labels, an optimal classification mechanism returns...
Reshef Meir, Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosens...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Distance Functions using Equivalence Relations
We address the problem of learning distance metrics using side-information in the form of groups of "similar" points. We propose to use the RCA algorithm, which is a sim...
Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz, Noam Shental, Daph...