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CF
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Non-clairvoyant speed scaling for batched parallel jobs on multiprocessors
Energy consumption and heat dissipation have become key considerations for modern high performance computer systems. In this paper, we focus on non-clairvoyant speed scaling to mi...
Hongyang Sun, Yangjie Cao, Wen-Jing Hsu
FOCS
1994
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
The Load, Capacity and Availability of Quorum Systems
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
Moni Naor, Avishai Wool
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
COMPGEOM
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Envelope surfaces
We construct a class of envelope surfaces in Rd , more precisely envelopes of balls. An envelope surface is a closed C1 (tangent continuous) manifold wrapping tightly around the u...
Nico Kruithof, Gert Vegter
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier