In this paper, we examine the behavior of bidding agents that are in direct competition with the other participants in an auction setting. Thus the agents are not simply trying to...
Sponsored search mechanisms have drawn much attention from both academic community and industry in recent years since the seminal papers of [3] and [4]. However, most of the exist...
—In this paper we present SYNCOBOOK, a distributed system that offers the functionalities of a face-to-face cooperative bookmarking system and of a recommendation system. Our ove...
In this paper we discuss the Recommendz 1 recommender system. This domain-independent system combines the advantages of collaborative and content-based filtering in a novel way. ...
Abstract. As multi-core processors proliferate, it has become more important than ever to ensure efficient execution of parallel jobs on multiprocessor systems. In this paper, we s...