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ICC
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A New Efficient Mechanism for Establishing IP Connectivity between Ambient Networks
—The changes in the communication paradigm envisioned for future networks, with peer-to-peer/symmetric attachments gaining momentum and two IP (Internet Protocol) versions coexis...
Rui Campos, Manuel Ricardo
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WINE
2009
Springer
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Prediction Mechanisms That Do Not Incentivize Undesirable Actions
A potential downside of prediction markets is that they may incentivize agents to take undesirable actions in the real world. For example, a prediction market for whether a terrori...
Peng Shi, Vincent Conitzer, Mingyu Guo
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WINE
2007
Springer
120views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
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False-Name-Proof Mechanisms for Hiring a Team
We study the problem of hiring a team of selfish agents to perform a task. Each agent is assumed to own one or more elements of a set system, and the auctioneer is trying to purch...
Atsushi Iwasaki, David Kempe, Yasumasa Saito, Mahy...
ACMMSP
2004
ACM
125views Hardware» more  ACMMSP 2004»
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Improving trace cache hit rates using the sliding window fill mechanism and fill select table
As superscalar processors become increasingly wide, it is inevitable that the large set of instructions to be fetched every cycle will span multiple noncontiguous basic blocks. Th...
Muhammad Shaaban, Edward Mulrane
IPPS
2000
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Monotonic Counters: A New Mechanism for Thread Synchronization
Only a handful of fundamental mechanisms for synchronizing the access of concurrent threads to shared memory are widely implemented and used. These include locks, condition variab...
John Thornley, K. Mani Chandy