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WINE
2007
Springer
16 years 14 days ago
2007
Springer
We study the problem of hiring a team of selfish agents to perform a task. Each agent is assumed to own one or more elements of a set system, and the auctioneer is trying to purch...
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GPC
2007
Springer
16 years 16 days ago
2007
Springer
Sharing huge databases in distributed systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer sufficient. A more ef...
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ENTCS
2007
15 years 6 months ago
2007
We introduce the idea of optimisation validation, which is to formally establish that an instance of an optimising transformation indeed improves with respect to some resource mea...
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EOR
2007
15 years 6 months ago
2007
One of the key challenges of current day electronic procurement systems is to enable procurement decisions transcend beyond a single attribute such as cost. Consequently, multiatt...
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COMCOM
2007
15 years 6 months ago
2007
Path probing is essential to maintaining an efficient overlay network topology. However, the cost of a full-scale probing is as high as O(n2 ), which is prohibitive in large-scale...