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ATAL
2007
Springer
16 years 17 days ago
Outperforming the competition in multi-unit sealed bid auctions
In this paper, we examine the behavior of bidding agents that are in direct competition with the other participants in an auction setting. Thus the agents are not simply trying to...
Ioannis A. Vetsikas, Nicholas R. Jennings
GECCO
2008
Springer
124views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Runtime analysis of binary PSO
We investigate the runtime of the Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm introduced by Kennedy and Eberhart (1997). The Binary PSO maintains a global best solution and...
Dirk Sudholt, Carsten Witt
ECCC
2007
69views more  ECCC 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Testing Symmetric Properties of Distributions
We introduce the notion of a Canonical Tester for a class of properties on distributions, that is, a tester strong and general enough that “a distribution property in the class ...
Paul Valiant
MST
2006
100views more  MST 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
On Delivery Times in Packet Networks under Adversarial Traffic
We consider packet networks and make use of the adversarial queuing theory" model 10 . We are interested in the question of guaranteeing that all packets are actually deliver...
Adi Rosén, Michael S. Tsirkin
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
155views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Tight information-theoretic lower bounds for welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions
We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Michael Schapira, Jan Vondr&aac...