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IJCAI
2001
14 years 11 months ago
The Exponentiated Subgradient Algorithm for Heuristic Boolean Programming
Boolean linear programs (BLPs) are ubiquitous in AI. Satisfiability testing, planning with resource constraints, and winner determination in combinatorial auctions are all example...
Dale Schuurmans, Finnegan Southey, Robert C. Holte
AAAI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Combinatorial Auctions with Structured Item Graphs
Combinatorial auctions (CAs) are important mechanisms for allocating interrelated items. Unfortunately, winner determination is NP-complete unless there is special structure. We s...
Vincent Conitzer, Jonathan Derryberry, Tuomas Sand...
IANDC
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Parameterized computational complexity of Dodgson and Young elections
We show that the two NP-complete problems of Dodgson Score and Young Score have differing computational complexities when the winner is close to being a Condorcet winner. On the ...
Nadja Betzler, Jiong Guo, Rolf Niedermeier
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Finding approximate competitive equilibria: efficient and fair course allocation
In the course allocation problem, a university administrator seeks to efficiently and fairly allocate schedules of over-demanded courses to students with heterogeneous preferences...
Abraham Othman, Tuomas Sandholm, Eric Budish
ICDE
2008
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Toward Expressive and Scalable Sponsored Search Auctions
Internet search results are a growing and highly profitable advertising platform. Search providers auction advertising slots to advertisers on their search result pages. Due to the...
David J. Martin, Johannes Gehrke, Joseph Y. Halper...