Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
In the usual models of cooperative game theory, the outcome of a coalition formation process is either the grand coalition or a coalition structure that consists of disjoint coali...
This paper deals with general nested loops and proposes a novel scheduling methodology for reducing the communication cost of parallel programs. General loops contain complex loop...
Florina M. Ciorba, Theodore Andronikos, Ioannis Dr...
When labelled training data is plentiful, discriminative techniques are widely used since they give excellent generalization performance. However, for large-scale applications suc...
Julia A. Lasserre, Christopher M. Bishop, Thomas P...
Text analysis tools are nowadays required to process increasingly large corpora which are often organized as small files (abstracts, news articles, etc). Cloud computing offers a ...