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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Minimizing communication cost in a distributed Bayesian network using a decentralized MDP
In complex distributed applications, a problem is often decomposed into a set of subproblems that are distributed to multiple agents. We formulate this class of problems with a tw...
Jiaying Shen, Victor R. Lesser, Norman Carver
COCOON
1999
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Multi-coloring Trees
Scheduling jobs with pairwise conflicts is modeled by the graph multicoloring problem. It occurs in two versions: in the preemptive case, each vertex may get any set of colors, w...
Magnús M. Halldórsson, Guy Kortsarz,...
COCOON
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Spectrum Bidding in Wireless Networks and Related
In this paper, we study the spectrum assignment problem for wireless access networks. Opportunistic spectrum usage is a promising technology. However, it could suffer from the self...
Xiang-Yang Li, Ping Xu, ShaoJie Tang, Xiaowen Chu
NIPS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Adapting to a Market Shock: Optimal Sequential Market-Making
We study the profit-maximization problem of a monopolistic market-maker who sets two-sided prices in an asset market. The sequential decision problem is hard to solve because the ...
Sanmay Das, Malik Magdon-Ismail
BMCBI
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
A simple and fast heuristic for protein structure comparison
Background: Protein structure comparison is a key problem in bioinformatics. There exist several methods for doing protein comparison, being the solution of the Maximum Contact Ma...
David A. Pelta, Juan Ramón González,...