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ICDT
2010
ACM
205views Database» more  ICDT 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
On the Aggregation Problem for Synthesized Web Services
The paper formulates and investigates the aggregation problem for synthesized mediators of Web services (SWMs). An SWM is a finite-state transducer defined in terms of templates...
Ting Deng, Wenfei Fan, Leonid Libkin, Yinghui Wu
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
219views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Revenue maximization with a single sample
We design and analyze approximately revenue-maximizing auctions in general single-parameter settings. Bidders have publicly observable attributes, and we assume that the valuation...
Peerapong Dhangwatnotai, Tim Roughgarden, Qiqi Yan
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Extracting Randomness from Samplable Distributions
Randomness extractors convert weak sources of randomness into an almost uniform distribution; the conversion uses a small amount of pure randomness. In algorithmic applications, t...
Luca Trevisan, Salil P. Vadhan