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ICCS
2001
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
An Application of the Process Mechanism to a Room Allocation Problem Using the pCG Language
The Sisyphus-I initiative consists of a constraint satisfaction problem in which a group of people in a research environment must be allocated rooms. Numerous constraints are detai...
David Benn, Dan Corbett
USS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Proactive Surge Protection: A Defense Mechanism for Bandwidth-Based Attacks
Large-scale bandwidth-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can quickly knock out substantial parts of a network before reactive defenses can respond. Even traffic flo...
Jerry Chi-Yuan Chou, Bill Lin, Subhabrata Sen, Oli...
CORR
2006
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Frugality ratios and improved truthful mechanisms for vertex cover
In set-system auctions, there are several overlapping teams of agents, and a task that can be completed by any of these teams. The auctioneer's goal is to hire a team and pay...
Edith Elkind, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldber...
FOCS
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Multiplicative Weights Mechanism for Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis
Abstract--We consider statistical data analysis in the interactive setting. In this setting a trusted curator maintains a database of sensitive information about individual partici...
Moritz Hardt, Guy N. Rothblum
MKTSCI
2010
92views more  MKTSCI 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
Optimal Reverse-Pricing Mechanisms
Reverse pricing is a market mechanism under which a consumer's bid for a product leads to a sale if the bid exceeds a hidden acceptance threshold the seller has set in advanc...
Martin Spann, Robert Zeithammer, Gerald Häubl