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MDAI
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Voting in the Medieval Papacy and Religious Orders
We take institutions seriously as both a rational response to dilemmas in which agents found themselves and a frame to which later rational agents adapted their behaviour in turn....
Ian McLean, Haidee Lorrey, Josep Colomer
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
187views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
Can multipath mitigate power law delays?: effects of parallelism on tail performance
—Parallelism has often been used to improve the reliability and efficiency of a variety of different engineering systems. In this paper, we quantify the efficiency of paralleli...
Jian Tan, Wei Wei, Bo Jiang, Ness Shroff, Donald F...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Complexity of terminating preference elicitation
Complexity theory is a useful tool to study computational issues surrounding the elicitation of preferences, as well as the strategic manipulation of elections aggregating togethe...
Toby Walsh
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
138views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Generalized scoring rules and the frequency of coalitional manipulability
We introduce a class of voting rules called generalized scoring rules. Under such a rule, each vote generates a vector of k scores, and the outcome of the voting rule is based onl...
Lirong Xia, Vincent Conitzer
AAAI
2011
12 years 5 months ago
On Expressing Value Externalities in Position Auctions
Externalities are recognized to exist in the sponsored search market, where two co-located ads compete for user attention. Existing work focuses on the effect of another ad on th...
Florin Constantin, Malvika Rao, Chien-Chung Huang,...