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ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
An analysis of feasible solutions for multi-issue negotiation involving nonlinear utility functions
This paper analyzes bilateral multi-issue negotiation between selfinterested agents. Specifically, we consider the case where issues are divisible, there are time constraints in ...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....
ESA
2004
Springer
126views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
Path Decomposition Under a New Cost Measure with Applications to Optical Network Design
We introduce a problem directly inspired by its application to DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) network design. We are given a set of demands to be carried over a netw...
Elliot Anshelevich, Lisa Zhang
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
155views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Tight information-theoretic lower bounds for welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions
We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Michael Schapira, Jan Vondr&aac...
SIAMJO
2010
136views more  SIAMJO 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
A New Exchange Method for Convex Semi-Infinite Programming
In this paper we propose a new exchange method for solving convex semi-infinite programming (CSIP) problems. We introduce a new dropping-rule in the proposed exchange algorithm, wh...
Liping Zhang, Soon-Yi Wu, Marco A. López
GECCO
2007
Springer
235views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
16 years 22 days ago
Expensive optimization, uncertain environment: an EA-based solution
Real life optimization problems often require finding optimal solution to complex high dimensional, multimodal problems involving computationally very expensive fitness function e...
Maumita Bhattacharya