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SIGECOM
2006
ACM
106views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
16 years 20 days ago
Approximation algorithms and online mechanisms for item pricing
We present approximation and online algorithms for a number of problems of pricing items for sale so as to maximize seller’s revenue in an unlimited supply setting. Our first r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum
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PODS
2010
ACM
232views Database» more  PODS 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Optimal sampling from distributed streams
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
201
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ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A few good agents: multi-agent social learning
In this paper, we investigate multi-agent learning (MAL) in a multi-agent resource selection problem (MARS) in which a large group of agents are competing for common resources. Si...
Jean Oh, Stephen F. Smith
EOR
2010
88views more  EOR 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Mathematical programming approaches for generating p-efficient points
Abstract: Probabilistically constrained problems, in which the random variables are finitely distributed, are nonconvex in general and hard to solve. The p-efficiency concept has b...
Miguel A. Lejeune, Nilay Noyan
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BMCBI
2006
161views more  BMCBI 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
A novel approach to phylogenetic tree construction using stochastic optimization and clustering
Background: The problem of inferring the evolutionary history and constructing the phylogenetic tree with high performance has become one of the major problems in computational bi...
Ling Qin, Yixin Chen, Yi Pan, Ling Chen