— We consider a distributed system modeled as a possibly large network of automata. Planning in this system consists in selecting and organizing actions in order to reach a goal ...
Abstract— It has recently been shown that multi-cell cooperations in cellular networks, enabling distributed antenna systems and joint transmission or joint detection across cell...
Abstract--Commercial services for provisioning software components and virtual infrastructure in the cloud are emerging. For customers, this creates a multitude of possibilities fo...
Immanuel Trummer, Frank Leymann, Ralph Mietzner, W...
We consider the problem of actively learning the mean values of distributions associated with a finite number of options. The decision maker can select which option to generate t...
We study the design and approximation of optimal crowdsourcing contests. Crowdsourcing contests can be modeled as all-pay auctions because entrants must exert effort up-front to e...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason D. Hartline, Balasubramanian ...