Auctions and exchanges are important coordination mechanisms for multiagent systems. Most multi-good markets are combinatorial in that the agents have preferences over bundles of ...
As data of an unprecedented scale are becoming accessible, skyline queries have been actively studied lately, to retrieve “interesting” data objects that are not dominated by a...
Dominance testing, the problem of determining whether an outcome is preferred over another, is of fundamental importance in many applications. Hence, there is a need for algorithm...
Scheduling problems overall assume that it is possible to identify stable criteria definitions measuring the quality of alternatives. In real world problems however, this does not ...
In this paper we examine the problem of estimating the parameters of a multinomial distribution over a large number of discreteoutcomes,most of which do not appearin the training ...