Knockout tournaments constitute a common format of sporting events, and also model a specific type of election scheme (namely, sequential pairwise elimination election). In such ...
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
One of many skills required to engage properly in a conversation is to know the appropiate use of the rules of engagement. In order to engage properly in a conversation, a virtual...
XACML does not natively support RBAC and even the specialized XACML profiles are not able to support many relevant constraints such as static and dynamic separation of duty. Exte...
The central problem in computational mechanism design is the tension between incentive compatibility and computational ef ciency. We establish the rst significant approximability ...
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Michael Schapira, Yaron...