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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
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
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
249views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Active knowledge: dynamically enriching RDF knowledge bases by web services
The proliferation of knowledge-sharing communities and the advances in information extraction have enabled the construction of large knowledge bases using the RDF data model to re...
Nicoleta Preda, Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchane...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
207views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Automatic contention detection and amelioration for data-intensive operations
To take full advantage of the parallelism offered by a multicore machine, one must write parallel code. Writing parallel code is difficult. Even when one writes correct code, the...
John Cieslewicz, Kenneth A. Ross, Kyoho Satsumi, Y...
GECCO
2010
Springer
187views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
The maximum hypervolume set yields near-optimal approximation
In order to allow a comparison of (otherwise incomparable) sets, many evolutionary multiobjective optimizers use indicator functions to guide the search and to evaluate the perfor...
Karl Bringmann, Tobias Friedrich