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SIGECOM
2003
ACM
122views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
16 years 8 hour ago
On polynomial-time preference elicitation with value queries
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Martin Zinkevich, Avrim Blum, Tuomas Sandholm
STOC
2010
ACM
194views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Multi-parameter mechanism design and sequential posted pricing
We study the classic mathematical economics problem of Bayesian optimal mechanism design where a principal aims to optimize expected revenue when allocating resources to self-inte...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason Hartline, David Malec and Bal...
FOCS
1995
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Disjoint Paths in Densely Embedded Graphs
We consider the following maximum disjoint paths problem (mdpp). We are given a large network, and pairs of nodes that wish to communicate over paths through the network — the g...
Jon M. Kleinberg, Éva Tardos
AIPS
2008
15 years 9 months ago
A Compact and Efficient SAT Encoding for Planning
In the planning-as-SAT paradigm there have been numerous recent developments towards improving the speed and scalability of planning at the cost of finding a step-optimal parallel...
Nathan Robinson, Charles Gretton, Duc Nghia Pham, ...
RSS
2007
151views Robotics» more  RSS 2007»
15 years 8 months ago
An Implicit Time-Stepping Method for Multibody Systems with Intermittent Contact
— In this paper we present an implicit time-stepping scheme for multibody systems with intermittent contact by incorporating the contact constraints as a set of complementarity a...
Nilanjan Chakraborty, Stephen Berard, Srinivas Ake...