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COLING
1992
13 years 6 months ago
A Tense And Aspect Calculus
This paper focuses on a theory of tense and aspect (the representation of time in natural language) that attempts a formM representation of the relevant liltguistic devices as imp...
Diana Santos
ICCS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Priorean Approach to Time Ontologies
Any non-trivial top-level ontology should take temporal notions into account. The details of how this should be done, however, are frequently debated. In this paper it is argued th...
Peter Øhrstrøm, Henrik Schärfe
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 7 months ago
Truthful spectrum auction design for secondary networks
Abstract—Opportunistic wireless channel access by nonlicensed users has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the bandwidth scarcity challenge. Auctions represent a natu...
Yuefei Zhu, Baochun Li, Zongpeng Li
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Mechanisms for Partial Information Elicitation: The Truth, but Not the Whole Truth
We examine a setting in which a buyer wishes to purchase probabilistic information from some agent. The seller must invest effort in order to gain access to the information, and m...
Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 hour ago
On the Power of Randomization in Algorithmic Mechanism Design
In many settings the power of truthful mechanisms is severely bounded. In this paper we use randomization to overcome this problem. In particular, we construct an FPTAS for multi-...
Shahar Dobzinski, Shaddin Dughmi