Most frameworks for utility elicitation assume a predefined set of features over which user preferences are expressed. We consider utility elicitation in the presence of subjecti...
Utility computing is a service provisioning model which will provide adaptive, flexible and simple access to computing resources, enabling a pay-per-use model for computing simila...
Many scheduling problems are posed as optimization problems where the goal is to find a feasible schedule that maximizes the utilization of some resource. In some domains it is al...
Andrew M. Sutton, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...
Abstract. In this paper we formulate a novel Divide-andCoordinate (DaC) algorithm, the so-called Egalitarian Utilities Divide-and-Coordinate (EU-DaC) algorithm. The Divide-andCoord...
We study principled methods for incorporating user utility into the selection of sponsored search ads. We describe variations of the GSP allocation/pricing mechanism that accommod...