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IPCO
2007
108views Optimization» more  IPCO 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Robust Combinatorial Optimization with Exponential Scenarios
Following the well-studied two-stage optimization framework for stochastic optimization [15, 18], we study approximation algorithms for robust two-stage optimization problems with ...
Uriel Feige, Kamal Jain, Mohammad Mahdian, Vahab S...
SODA
2010
ACM
148views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Limits on the Social Welfare of Maximal-In-Range Auction Mechanisms
Many commonly-used auction mechanisms are "maximal-in-range". We show that any maximalin-range mechanism for n bidders and m items cannot both approximate the social wel...
Dave Buchfuhrer, Chris Umans
STOC
2006
ACM
180views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Pricing for fairness: distributed resource allocation for multiple objectives
In this paper, we present a simple distributed algorithm for resource allocation which simultaneously approximates the optimum value for a large class of objective functions. In p...
Sung-woo Cho, Ashish Goel
HT
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Capturing implicit user influence in online social sharing
Online social sharing sites are becoming very popular nowadays among Web users, who use these sites to share their favourite items and to discover interesting and useful items fro...
Ching-man Au Yeung, Tomoharu Iwata
WWW
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Matchbox: large scale online bayesian recommendations
We present a probabilistic model for generating personalised recommendations of items to users of a web service. The Matchbox system makes use of content information in the form o...
David H. Stern, Ralf Herbrich, Thore Graepel