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STOC
2009
ACM
167views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 7 days ago
Universally utility-maximizing privacy mechanisms
A mechanism for releasing information about a statistical database with sensitive data must resolve a trade-off between utility and privacy. Publishing fully accurate information ...
Arpita Ghosh, Tim Roughgarden, Mukund Sundararajan
CDC
2008
IEEE
186views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Continuous-time behavioral portfolio selection
This paper formulates and studies a general continuous-time behavioral portfolio selection model under Kahneman and Tversky's (cumulative) prospect theory, featuring S-shaped...
Hanqing Jin, Xun Yu Zhou
CORR
2007
Springer
63views Education» more  CORR 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Optimizing the SINR operating point of spatial networks
— This paper addresses the following question, which is of interest in the design and deployment of a multiuser decentralized network. Given a total system bandwidth of W Hz and ...
Nihar Jindal, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Steven Weber
JCSS
2008
138views more  JCSS 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Reducing mechanism design to algorithm design via machine learning
We use techniques from sample-complexity in machine learning to reduce problems of incentive-compatible mechanism design to standard algorithmic questions, for a broad class of re...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason D. Hartlin...
WINET
2010
127views more  WINET 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
A Markov Decision Process based flow assignment framework for heterogeneous network access
We consider a scenario where devices with multiple networking capabilities access networks with heterogeneous characteristics. In such a setting, we address the problem of effici...
Jatinder Pal Singh, Tansu Alpcan, Piyush Agrawal, ...