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CP
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
CP-IP Techniques for the Bid Evaluation in Combinatorial Auctions
Abstract. Combinatorial auctions are an important e-commerce application where bidders can bid on combinations of items. The problem of selecting the best bids that cover all items...
Alessio Guerri, Michela Milano
ICALP
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
On the Limitations of Greedy Mechanism Design for Truthful Combinatorial Auctions
We study the combinatorial auction (CA) problem, in which m objects are sold to rational agents and the goal is to maximize social welfare. Of particular interest is the special ca...
Allan Borodin, Brendan Lucier
AAECC
2006
Springer
125views Algorithms» more  AAECC 2006»
14 years 11 months ago
Combinatorial Group Theory and Public Key Cryptography
Abstract. After some excitement generated by recently suggested public key exchange protocols due to Anshel-Anshel-Goldfeld and Ko-Lee et al., it is a prevalent opinion now that th...
Vladimir Shpilrain, Gabriel Zapata
CORR
2010
Springer
152views Education» more  CORR 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Combinatorial Network Optimization with Unknown Variables: Multi-Armed Bandits with Linear Rewards
In the classic multi-armed bandits problem, the goal is to have a policy for dynamically operating arms that each yield stochastic rewards with unknown means. The key metric of int...
Yi Gai, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Rahul Jain
EOR
2007
88views more  EOR 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
The minimum size instance of a Pallet Loading Problem equivalence class
The Pallet Loading Problem (PLP) maximizes the number of identical rectangular boxes placed within a rectangular pallet. Boxes may be rotated 90° so long as they are packed with ...
Gustavo H. A. Martins, Robert F. Dell