We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Michael Schapira, Jan Vondr&aac...
The diversity and large volumes of data processed in the Natural Sciences today has led to a proliferation of highlyspecialized and autonomous scientific databases with inherent a...
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Frank Neven, Dieter Va...
Given an author-conference graph, how do we answer proximity queries (e.g., what are the most related conferences for John Smith?); how can we tailor the search result if the user...
Relational database (DB) management systems provide the standard means for structuring and querying large amounts of data. However, to access such data the exact structure of the D...
Raffaella Bernardi, Francesca Bonin, Diego Calvane...
This paper reports our first set of results on managing uncertainty in data integration. We posit that data-integration systems need to handle uncertainty at three levels, and do...