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SIGECOM
2009
ACM
216views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Approximate mechanism design without money
The literature on algorithmic mechanism design is mostly concerned with game-theoretic versions of optimization problems to which standard economic money-based mechanisms cannot b...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Moshe Tennenholtz
HEURISTICS
2006
197views more  HEURISTICS 2006»
14 years 11 months ago
Bucket elimination for multiobjective optimization problems
Multiobjective optimization deals with problems involving multiple measures of performance that should be optimized simultaneously. In this paper we extend bucket elimination (BE),...
Emma Rollon, Javier Larrosa
CORR
2006
Springer
107views Education» more  CORR 2006»
14 years 11 months ago
Optimal Scheduling of Peer-to-Peer File Dissemination
Peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks such as BitTorrent and Avalanche are increasingly used for disseminating potentially large files from a server to many end users via the Intern...
Jochen Mundinger, Richard R. Weber, Gideon Weiss
WINE
2007
Springer
124views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
On the Price of Truthfulness in Path Auctions
We study the frugality ratio of truthful mechanisms in path auctions, which measures the extent to which truthful mechanisms “overpay” compared to non-truthful mechanisms. In p...
Qiqi Yan
APPROX
2009
Springer
163views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
The Power of Preemption on Unrelated Machines and Applications to Scheduling Orders
Abstract. Scheduling jobs on unrelated parallel machines so as to minimize the makespan is one of the basic, well-studied problems in the area of machine scheduling. In the first ...
José R. Correa, Martin Skutella, José...