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WINE
2007
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Market Equilibrium Using Auctions for a Class of Gross-Substitute Utilities
In addition to useful Economic interpretation, auction based algorithms are generally found to be efficient. In this note, we observe that the auction-based mechanism can also be u...
Rahul Garg, Sanjiv Kapoor
ATAL
2011
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Maximizing revenue in symmetric resource allocation systems when user utilities exhibit diminishing returns
Consumers of resources in realistic applications (e.g., web, multimedia) typically derive diminishing-return utilities from the amount of resource they receive. A resource provide...
Roie Zivan, Miroslav Dudík, Praveen Paruchu...
APNOMS
2006
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Performance Analysis of a Centralized Resource Allocation Mechanism for Time-Slotted OBS Networks
Time-Slotted Optical Burst Switching (TS-OBS) is one of the most promising next-generation transport network technologies. This paper proposes a time-slot assignment procedure usin...
Tai-Won Um, Jun Kyun Choi, Seong Gon Choi, Won Ryu
AI
2002
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
On the Role of Contextual Weak Independence in Probabilistic Inference
Previous experimental results have clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of utilizing context-specific independence (CSI) in probabilistic inference. However, CSI is a special cas...
Cory J. Butz, Manon J. Sanscartier
CEC
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
A Utile Function Optimizer
Abstract— We recast the problem of unconstrained continuous evolutionary optimization as inference in a fixed graphical model. This approach allows us to address several pervasi...
Christopher K. Monson, Kevin D. Seppi, James L. Ca...