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WPES
2005
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
The privacy cost of the second-chance offer
This paper examines a generalization of a two-stage game common on eBay: an ascending-price auction followed by price discrimination (the second chance offer). High bids in the a...
Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun, Poorvi L. Vora
IWLCS
2005
Springer
16 years 1 days ago
Counter Example for Q-Bucket-Brigade Under Prediction Problem
Aiming to clarify the convergence or divergence conditions for Learning Classifier System (LCS), this paper explores: (1) an extreme condition where the reinforcement process of ...
Atsushi Wada, Keiki Takadama, Katsunori Shimohara
CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Extending and inferring functional dependencies in schema transformation
We study the representation, derivation and utilization of a special kind of constraints in multidatabase systems. A major challenge is when component database schemas are schemat...
Qi He, Tok Wang Ling
IPSN
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Lattice sensor networks: capacity limits, optimal routing and robustness to failures
We study network capacity limits and optimal routing algorithms for regular sensor networks, namely, square and torus grid sensor networks, in both, the static case (no node failu...
Guillermo Barrenechea, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, M...
IUI
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A model of textual affect sensing using real-world knowledge
This paper presents a novel way for assessing the affective qualities of natural language and a scenario for its use. Previous approaches to textual affect sensing have employed k...
Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman, Ted Selker