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CPE
1998
Springer
115views Hardware» more  CPE 1998»
15 years 4 months ago
On Choosing a Task Assignment Policy for a Distributed Server System
We consider a distributed server system model and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our model each host processes tasks in First-Come-First-Serve ord...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Mark Crovella, Cristina D. Mur...
ECCV
2006
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Figure/Ground Assignment in Natural Images
Abstract. Figure/ground assignment is a key step in perceptual organization which assigns contours to one of the two abutting regions, providing information about occlusion and all...
Xiaofeng Ren, Charless Fowlkes, Jitendra Malik
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
201views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Truthful assignment without money
We study the design of truthful mechanisms that do not use payments for the generalized assignment problem (GAP) and its variants. An instance of the GAP consists of a bipartite g...
Shaddin Dughmi, Arpita Ghosh
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
170views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Optimal online assignment with forecasts
Motivated by the allocation problem facing publishers in display advertising we formulate the online assignment with forecast problem, a version of the online allocation problem w...
Erik Vee, Sergei Vassilvitskii, Jayavel Shanmugasu...
TKDE
2012
199views Formal Methods» more  TKDE 2012»
13 years 2 months ago
Subscriber Assignment for Wide-Area Content-Based Publish/Subscribe
— We study the problem of assigning subscribers to brokers in a wide-area content-based publish/subscribe system. A good assignment should consider both subscriber interests in t...
Albert Yu, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Jun Yang