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GECON
2007
Springer
153views Business» more  GECON 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?
We study a peer-to-peer backup system, where users offer some of their storage space to provide service for the others. The economic model for such a system is different from the o...
László Toka, Patrick Maillé
FLAIRS
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Random Subsets Support Learning a Mixture of Heuristics
Problem solvers, both human and machine, have at their disposal many heuristics that may support effective search. The efficacy of these heuristics, however, varies with the probl...
Smiljana Petrovic, Susan L. Epstein
SODA
2008
ACM
184views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Coresets, sparse greedy approximation, and the Frank-Wolfe algorithm
The problem of maximizing a concave function f(x) in a simplex S can be solved approximately by a simple greedy algorithm. For given k, the algorithm can find a point x(k) on a k-...
Kenneth L. Clarkson
EMNLP
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Induction of Greedy Controllers for Deterministic Treebank Parsers
Most statistical parsers have used the grammar induction approach, in which a stochastic grammar is induced from a treebank. An alternative approach is to induce a controller for ...
Tom Kalt
FAC
2006
92views more  FAC 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Action Refinement Applied to Late Decisions
In modular approaches to specify concurrent systems a system is built up from components using various operators as e.g. the sequential, the parallel, or the choice (+) operator. U...
Harald Fecher, Mila E. Majster-Cederbaum