The revelation principle is a cornerstone tool in mechanism design. It states that one can restrict attention, without loss in the designer’s objective, to mechanisms in which A...
Learning the parameters (conditional and marginal probabilities) from a data set is a common method of building a belief network. Consider the situation where we have known graph s...
In a Byzantine agreement protocol, a synchronous network of n interconnected processes of which t may be faulty, starts with an initial binary value associated with each process; a...
D. V. S. Ravikant, Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubram...
Coalition formation methods allow agents to join together and are thus necessary in cases where tasks can only be performed cooperatively by groups. This is the case in the Reques...
Wikipedia infoboxes is an example of a seemingly structured, yet extraordinarily heterogeneous dataset, where any given record has only a tiny fraction of all possible fields. Su...