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SIROCCO
2010
13 years 6 months ago
On the Impact of Local Taxes in a Set Cover Game
Given a collection C of weighted subsets of a ground set E, the set cover problem is to find a minimum weight subset of C which covers all elements of E. We study a strategic game ...
Bruno Escoffier, Laurent Gourvès, Jé...
MST
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Non-Cooperative Cost Sharing Games via Subsidies
We consider a cost sharing system where users are selfish and act according to their own interest. There is a set of facilities and each facility provides services to a subset of ...
Niv Buchbinder, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Joseph Naor, Ar...
WINE
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Covering Games: Approximation through Non-cooperation
We propose approximation algorithms under game-theoretic considerations. We indroduce and study the general covering problem which is a natural generalization of the well-studied m...
Martin Gairing
ICFP
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
The impact of higher-order state and control effects on local relational reasoning
Reasoning about program equivalence is one of the oldest problems in semantics. In recent years, useful techniques have been developed, based on bisimulations and logical relation...
Derek Dreyer, Georg Neis, Lars Birkedal
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic discovery of image families: Global vs. local features
Gathering a large collection of images has been made quite easy by social and image sharing websites, e.g. flickr.com. However, using such collections faces the problem that they ...
Mohamed Aly, Peter Welinder, Mario E. Munich, Piet...