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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
219views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Revenue maximization with a single sample
We design and analyze approximately revenue-maximizing auctions in general single-parameter settings. Bidders have publicly observable attributes, and we assume that the valuation...
Peerapong Dhangwatnotai, Tim Roughgarden, Qiqi Yan
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
147views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Socially desirable approximations for Dodgson's voting rule
In 1876 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson suggested the intriguing voting rule that today bears his name. Although Dodgson’s rule is one of the most well-studied voting rules, it suffers...
Ioannis Caragiannis, Christos Kaklamanis, Nikos Ka...
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
197views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Coloring spatial point processes with applications to peer discovery in large wireless networks
In this paper, we study distributed channel assignment in wireless networks with applications to peer discovery in ad hoc wireless networks. We model channel assignment as a color...
Jian Ni, R. Srikant, Xinzhou Wu
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
207views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Automatic contention detection and amelioration for data-intensive operations
To take full advantage of the parallelism offered by a multicore machine, one must write parallel code. Writing parallel code is difficult. Even when one writes correct code, the...
John Cieslewicz, Kenneth A. Ross, Kyoho Satsumi, Y...