Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
For the problem of allocating one or more items among a group of competing agents, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism is strategy-proof and efficient. However, the VCG mech...
In this paper, we examine a supply chain in which a single supplier sells to a downstream retailer. We consider a multi-period model, with the following sequence of events. In per...
Weighted tree transducers have been proposed as useful formal models for representing syntactic natural language processing applications, but there has been little description of ...
Central to many problems in scene understanding based on using a network of tens, hundreds or even thousands of randomly distributed cameras with on-board processing and wireless c...
Shubao Liu, Kongbin Kang, Jean-Philippe Tarel and ...