In mechanism design, the goal is to create rules for making a decision based on the preferences of multiple parties (agents), while taking into account that agents may behave stra...
Vincent Conitzer, Nicole Immorlica, Joshua Letchfo...
Abstract--Flash memory is well-known for its inherent asymmetry: the flash-cell charge levels are easy to increase but are hard to decrease. In a general rewriting model, the store...
Anxiao Jiang, Michael Langberg, Moshe Schwartz, Je...
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a payment framework that is loosely based on the direct debit payment model. We define such payments as one in which customer...
We consider the problem of stabilizing a plant with a network of resource constrained wireless nodes. Traditional networked control schemes are designed with one of the nodes in th...
Miroslav Pajic, Shreyas Sundaram, Jerome Le Ny, Ge...
We examine distributed time-synchronization in mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks. The problem is to estimate the skews and offsets of clocks of all the nodes with respect to an arb...