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FOCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
On Allocating Goods to Maximize Fairness
Given a set A of m agents and a set I of n items, where agent A ∈ A has utility uA,i for item i ∈ I, our goal is to allocate items to agents to maximize fairness. Specificall...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Julia Chuzhoy, Sanjeev Khan...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Instance-Optimal Geometric Algorithms
We prove the existence of an algorithm A for computing 2-d or 3-d convex hulls that is optimal for every point set in the following sense: for every set S of n points and for ever...
Peyman Afshani, Jérémy Barbay, Timot...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Distance Oracles for Sparse Graphs
Abstract— Thorup and Zwick, in their seminal work, introduced the approximate distance oracle, which is a data structure that answers distance queries in a graph. For any integer...
Christian Sommer 0002, Elad Verbin, Wei Yu
ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Characterizing false-name-proof allocation rules in combinatorial auctions
A combinatorial auction mechanism consists of an allocation rule that defines the allocation of goods for each agent, and a payment rule that defines the payment of each winner....
Taiki Todo, Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sa...
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Return Intervals Approach to Financial Fluctuations
Financial fluctuations play a key role for financial markets studies. A new approach focusing on properties of return intervals can help to get better understanding of the fluct...
Fengzhong Wang, Kazuko Yamasaki, Shlomo Havlin, H....