Given a finite set V , and integers k ≥ 1 and r ≥ 0, denote by A(k, r) the class of hypergraphs A ⊆ 2V with (k, r)-bounded intersections, i.e. in which the intersection of a...
Endre Boros, Khaled M. Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvic...
Abstract. Instance retraction is a difficult problem for concept learning by version spaces. This chapter introduces a family of version-space representations called one-sided inst...
Evgueni N. Smirnov, Ida G. Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, H....
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism ...
Strategyproof cost-sharing mechanisms, lying in the core, that recover 1/a fraction of the cost, are presented for the set cover and facility location games: a=O(log n) for the fo...
Nikhil R. Devanur, Milena Mihail, Vijay V. Vaziran...
Evolvable Hardware (EHW) has been proposed as a new method for evolving circuits automatically. One of the problems appearing is that only circuits of limited size are evolvable. I...