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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
233views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Incentivizing peer-assisted services: a fluid shapley value approach
A new generation of content delivery networks for live streaming, video on demand, and software updates takes advantage of a peer-to-peer architecture to reduce their operating co...
Vishal Misra, Stratis Ioannidis, Augustin Chaintre...
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
173views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Channel fragmentation in dynamic spectrum access systems: a theoretical study
Dynamic Spectrum Access systems exploit temporarily available spectrum (‘white spaces’) and can spread transmissions over a number of non-contiguous sub-channels. Such methods...
Edward G. Coffman Jr., Philippe Robert, Florian Si...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
173views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
PR-join: a non-blocking join achieving higher early result rate with statistical guarantees
Online aggregation is a promising solution to achieving fast early responses for interactive ad-hoc queries that compute aggregates on a large amount of data. Essential to the suc...
Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
250views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Spreadsheet as a relational database engine
Spreadsheets are among the most commonly used applications for data management and analysis. Perhaps they are even among the most widely used computer applications of all kinds. H...
Jerzy Tyszkiewicz