Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
We study the problem of selling identical goods to n unit-demand bidders in a setting in which the total supply of goods is unknown to the mechanism. Items arrive dynamically, and...
Continuous queries are persistent queries that allow users to receive new results when they become available. While continuous query systems can transform a passive web into an ac...
Jianjun Chen, David J. DeWitt, Feng Tian, Yuan Wan...
This paper presents a new optimization metaheuristic called ID Walk (Intensification/Diversification Walk) that offers advantages for combining simplicity with effectiveness. In ad...
Many scheduling problems reside in uncertain and dynamic environments – tasks have a nonzero probability of failure and may need to be rescheduled. In these cases, an optimized ...
Andrew M. Sutton, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...