In a Stackelberg pricing game a leader aims to set prices on a subset of a given collection of items, such as to maximize her revenue from a follower purchasing a feasible subset o...
Patrick Briest, Martin Hoefer, Luciano Gualà...
In several agent-oriented scenarios in the real world, an autonomous agent that is situated in an unknown environment must learn through a process of trial and error to take actio...
We study the survivable version of the game theoretic network formation model known as the Connection Game, originally introduced in [5]. In this model, players attempt to connect ...
This paper proposes and compares two novel schemes for near duplicate image and video-shot detection. The first approach is based on global hierarchical colour histograms, using ...
Ondrej Chum, James Philbin, Michael Isard, Andrew ...
We present a formal analysis of the database layout problem, i.e., the problem of determining how database objects such as tables and indexes are assigned to disk drives. Optimizin...