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ICRA
2009
IEEE
141views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Development of insect thorax based flapping mechanism
—Design of a flapping mechanism for flapping wing micro air vehicles (FWMAV) is presented based on a mathematical model of insect thorax. This model also includes an aerodynami...
Zaeem Khan, Kyle Steelman, Sunil Agrawal
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
152views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
On characterizations of truthful mechanisms for combinatorial auctions and scheduling
We characterize truthful mechanisms in two multi-parameter domains. The first characterization shows that every mechanism for combinatorial auctions with two subadditive bidders t...
Shahar Dobzinski, Mukund Sundararajan
WINE
2010
Springer
134views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Truthful Mechanisms for Exhibitions
We consider the following combinatorial auction: Given a range space (U, R), and m bidders interested in buying only ranges in R, each bidder j declares her bid bj : R R+. We give...
George Christodoulou, Khaled M. Elbassioni, Mahmou...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
An Incentive-Compatible Mechanism for Scheduling Non-Malleable Parallel Jobs with Individual Deadlines
We design an incentive-compatible mechanism for scheduling n non-malleable parallel jobs on a parallel system comprising m identical processors. Each job is owned by a selfish us...
Thomas E. Carroll, Daniel Grosu
P2P
2008
IEEE
176views Communications» more  P2P 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Towards an Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Live Streaming Systems
Incentive mechanisms are essential components of peer-topeer systems for file sharing such as BitTorrent, since they enforce peers to share their resources and to participate. Re...
Thomas Silverston, Olivier Fourmaux, Jon Crowcroft