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COCO
2009
Springer
155views Algorithms» more  COCO 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Weak Derandomization of Weak Algorithms: Explicit Versions of Yao's Lemma
—A simple averaging argument shows that given a randomized algorithm A and a function f such that for every input x, Pr[A(x) = f(x)] ≥ 1−ρ (where the probability is over the...
Ronen Shaltiel
CORR
2006
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Frugality ratios and improved truthful mechanisms for vertex cover
In set-system auctions, there are several overlapping teams of agents, and a task that can be completed by any of these teams. The auctioneer's goal is to hire a team and pay...
Edith Elkind, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldber...
COCO
2003
Springer
82views Algorithms» more  COCO 2003»
14 years 21 days ago
Derandomization and Distinguishing Complexity
We continue an investigation of resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity and derandomization techniques begun in [2, 3]. We introduce nondeterministic time-bounded Kolmogorov comple...
Eric Allender, Michal Koucký, Detlef Ronneb...
WINE
2009
Springer
202views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A New Ranking Scheme of the GSP Mechanism with Markovian Users
Sponsored search auction is used by most search engines to select ads to display on the web page of a search result, according to advertisers’ bidding prices. The income of this ...
Xiaotie Deng, Jiajin Yu
SODA
2003
ACM
132views Algorithms» more  SODA 2003»
13 years 8 months ago
Online learning in online auctions
We consider the problem of revenue maximization in online auctions, that is, auctions in which bids are received and dealt with one-by-one. In this note, we demonstrate that resul...
Avrim Blum, Vijay Kumar, Atri Rudra, Felix Wu