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IAT
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Using Prior Knowledge to Improve Distributed Hill Climbing
The Distributed Probabilistic Protocol (DPP) is a new, approximate algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSPs) that exploits prior knowledge to impr...
Roger Mailler
LICS
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Managing Digital Rights using Linear Logic
Digital music players protect songs by enforcing licenses that convey specific rights for individual songs or groups of songs. For licenses specified in industry, we show that d...
Adam Barth, John C. Mitchell
STOC
2003
ACM
152views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
16 years 5 months ago
Reducing truth-telling online mechanisms to online optimization
We describe a general technique for converting an online algorithm B to a truthtelling mechanism. We require that the original online competitive algorithm has certain "nicen...
Baruch Awerbuch, Yossi Azar, Adam Meyerson
FOCS
2003
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Clustering with Qualitative Information
We consider the problem of clustering a collection of elements based on pairwise judgments of similarity and dissimilarity. Bansal, Blum and Chawla (in: Proceedings of 43rd FOCS, ...
Moses Charikar, Venkatesan Guruswami, Anthony Wirt...
CORR
2010
Springer
182views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Fast Convergence of Natural Bargaining Dynamics in Exchange Networks
Bargaining networks model the behavior of a set of players who need to reach pairwise agreements for making profits. Nash bargaining solutions in this context correspond to soluti...
Yashodhan Kanoria, Mohsen Bayati, Christian Borgs,...