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SAGT
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
2009
Springer
In a scheduling game, each player owns a job and chooses a machine to execute it. While the social cost is the maximal load over all machines (makespan), the cost (disutility) of ...
ICIS
2004
15 years 1 months ago
2004
The effective management of digital rights is a crucial challenge in many industries making the transition from physical to digital products. We present an economic model that cha...
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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2011
ACM
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
MANSCI
2006
14 years 11 months ago
2006
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
CLEF
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. For our third participation in the CLEF evaluation campaign, our objective for both multilingual tracks is to propose a new merging strategy that does not require a train...