Combinatorial auctions where bidders can bid on bundles of items can lead to more economical allocations, but determining the winners is NP-complete and inapproximable. We present...
Tuomas Sandholm, Subhash Suri, Andrew Gilpin, Davi...
Transparency can be used to increase the visibility of a user’s workspace in situations where the space is obscured by floating windows and tool palettes. Dynamic transparency t...
Banding can be a major defect in inkjet printing. Knowing the visual sensitivity threshold of inkjet banding is therefore useful for understanding and pushing the technological li...
Gene Ontology (GO) is a controlled vocabulary. Given a gene product, GO enables scientists to clearly and unambiguously describe specific molecular functions of the gene product, ...
This paper explores an approach to global, stochastic, simulation optimization which combines stochastic approximation (SA) with simulated annealing (SAN). SA directs a search of ...