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WINE
2010
Springer
129views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Optimal Pricing in the Presence of Local Network Effects
We study the optimal pricing strategies of a monopolist selling a divisible good (service) to consumers that are embedded in a social network. A key feature of our model is that c...
Ozan Candogan, Kostas Bimpikis, Asuman E. Ozdaglar
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
An axiomatic approach for result diversification
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
Sreenivas Gollapudi, Aneesh Sharma
ICC
2007
IEEE
137views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
On the Simulation of Tikhonov Random Processes
Abstract— A novel, simple and efficient method for the generation of Tikhonov (a.k.a. von Mises) random variates is proposed. In the proposed method, circular variates of a pres...
Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu
COCO
2007
Springer
85views Algorithms» more  COCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Norms, XOR Lemmas, and Lower Bounds for GF(2) Polynomials and Multiparty Protocols
This paper presents a unified and simple treatment of basic questions concerning two computational models: multiparty communication complexity and GF(2) polynomials. The key is t...
Emanuele Viola, Avi Wigderson
BMCBI
2008
140views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Improved accuracy of multiple ncRNA alignment by incorporating structural information into a MAFFT-based framework
Background: Structural alignment of RNAs is becoming important, since the discovery of functional non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Recent studies, mainly based on various approximations ...
Kazutaka Katoh, Hiroyuki Toh