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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
164views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
Truthful mechanisms with implicit payment computation
It is widely believed that computing payments needed to induce truthful bidding is somehow harder than simply computing the allocation. We show that the opposite is true for singl...
Moshe Babaioff, Robert D. Kleinberg, Aleksandrs Sl...
EPS
1997
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Modeling Speculators with Genetic Programming
In spirit of the earlier works done by Arthur (1992) and Palmer et al. (1993), this paper models speculators with genetic programming (GP) in a production economy (Muthian Economy)...
Shu-Heng Chen, Chia-Hsuan Yeh
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Analyzing Self-Defense Investments in Internet Security under Cyber-Insurance Coverage
—Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an ...
Ranjan Pal, Leana Golubchik
AAAI
2000
14 years 12 months ago
Nurse Rostering at the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong
This paper describes the Rostering Engine (RE) that we have developed for the Hospital Authority (HA), Hong Kong as part of their Staff Rostering System (SRS) using AI constraint-...
Andy Hon Wai Chun, Steve Ho Chuen Chan, Garbbie Pu...
SIGMETRICS
2012
ACM
248views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2012»
13 years 28 days ago
Pricing cloud bandwidth reservations under demand uncertainty
In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-asyou-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, we consider a n...
Di Niu, Chen Feng, Baochun Li