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NIPS
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Approximately Efficient Online Mechanism Design
Online mechanism design (OMD) addresses the problem of sequential decision making in a stochastic environment with multiple self-interested agents. The goal in OMD is to make valu...
David C. Parkes, Satinder P. Singh, Dimah Yanovsky
CSREASAM
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Architectural Framework Design for Authentication Mechanism in Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs)
Wireless ad-hoc networks do not rely on a pre-existing network structure and are characterized by dynamic changes in the topology. This characteristic makes it difficult to perform...
Rajasekhar Yakkali, Gregory Vert
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Dynamic cost-per-action mechanisms and applications to online advertising
We study the Cost-Per-Action or Cost-Per-Acquisition (CPA) charging scheme in online advertising. In this scheme, instead of paying per click, the advertisers pay only when a user...
Hamid Nazerzadeh, Amin Saberi, Rakesh Vohra
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Scalable mechanism design for the procurement of services with uncertain durations
In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Kate Larson, Alex...
FAST
2008
13 years 8 months ago
SWEEPER: An Efficient Disaster Recovery Point Identification Mechanism
Data corruption is one of the key problems that is on top of the radar screen of most CIOs. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technologies help enterprises deal with data corruptio...
Akshat Verma, Kaladhar Voruganti, Ramani Routray, ...