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ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
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...
JAIR
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Cooperative Games with Overlapping Coalitions
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...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Evangelos Mar...
NCA
2005
IEEE
16 years 1 days ago
Reducing the Communication Cost via Chain Pattern Scheduling
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...
CVPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Principled Hybrids of Generative and Discriminative Models
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...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Reshaping text data for efficient processing on Amazon EC2
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 ...
Gabriela Turcu, Ian T. Foster, Svetlozar Nestorov