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PODC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Concurrent imitation dynamics in congestion games
Imitating successful behavior is a natural and frequently applied approach to trust in when facing scenarios for which we have little or no experience upon which we can base our d...
Heiner Ackermann, Petra Berenbrink, Simon Fischer,...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
165views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
Sharing aggregate computation for distributed queries
An emerging challenge in modern distributed querying is to efficiently process multiple continuous aggregation queries simultaneously. Processing each query independently may be i...
Ryan Huebsch, Minos N. Garofalakis, Joseph M. Hell...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
111views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
A qualitative vickrey auction
Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
Paul Harrenstein, Mathijs de Weerdt, Vincent Conit...
FOCS
2006
IEEE
16 years 25 days ago
Approximation algorithms for allocation problems: Improving the factor of 1 - 1/e
Combinatorial allocation problems require allocating items to players in a way that maximizes the total utility. Two such problems received attention recently, and were addressed ...
Uriel Feige, Jan Vondrák
SIGGRAPH
1993
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Wavelet radiosity
Radiosity methods have been shown to be an effective means to solve the global illumination problem in Lambertian diffuse environments. These methods approximate the radiosity int...
Steven J. Gortler, Peter Schröder, Michael F....