DGO
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
New technology in knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) make it possible to extract valuable information from operational data. Private businesses already use the technology f...
NETWORKING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
We address the problem of maximizing the social welfare in a peer-to-peer streaming overlay given a fixed amount of server upload capacity. We show that peers' selfish behavio...
NOSSDAV
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2010
Springer
Recent advance in scalable video coding (SVC) makes it possible for users to receive the same video with different qualities. To adopt SVC in P2P streaming, two key design questio...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
We study the problem of selling identical goods to n unit-demand bidders in a setting in which the total supply of goods is unknown to the mechanism. Items arrive dynamically, and...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper presents protocols and strategies for coalition formation with incomplete information under time constraints. It focuses on strategies for coalition members to distribu...
WINE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
We consider the following allocation problem arising in the setting of combinatorial auctions: a set of goods is to be allocated to a set of players so as to maximize the sum of t...
ICPP
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
— Due to resource scarcity, a paramount concern in ad hoc networks is to utilize the limited resources efficiently. The self-organized nature of ad hoc networks makes the social...
WINE
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
We introduce the concept of a trust network—a decentralized payment infrastructure in which payments are routed as IOUs between trusted entities. The trust network has directed ...
CDC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
We consider a variation of the resource allocation problem. In the traditional problem, there is a global planner who would like to assign a set of players to a set of resources s...
SAGT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
We consider the loss in social welfare caused by individual rationality in matching scenarios. We give both theoretical and experimental results comparing stable matchings with soc...