Abstract--Resource discovery is a challenging issue in unstructured peer-to-peer networks. Blind search approaches, including flooding and random walks, are the two typical algorit...
Algorithmic pricing is the computational problem that sellers (e.g., in supermarkets) face when trying to set prices for their items to maximize their profit in the presence of a ...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason D. Hartline, Robert Kleinberg
Abstract. We consider the problem of finding shortest paths in a graph with independent randomly distributed edge lengths. Our goal is to maximize the probability that the path len...
Evdokia Nikolova, Jonathan A. Kelner, Matthew Bran...
—Aspnes et al [2] introduced an innovative game for modeling the containment of the spread of viruses and worms (security breaches) in a network. In this model, nodes choose to i...
V. S. Anil Kumar, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Zhifeng Sun,...
Estimating overcomplete ICA bases for image windows is a difficult problem. Most algorithms require the estimation of values of the independent components which leads to computatio...