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PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Gradient clock synchronization
We introduce the distributed gradient clock synchronization problem. As in traditional distributed clock synchronization, we consider a network of nodes equipped with hardware clo...
Rui Fan, Nancy A. Lynch
PODS
2005
ACM
151views Database» more  PODS 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Computing optimal randomized resource allocations for massive security games
Predictable allocations of security resources such as police officers, canine units, or checkpoints are vulnerable to exploitation by attackers. Recent work has applied game-theo...
Christopher Kiekintveld, Manish Jain, Jason Tsai, ...
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
320views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Market making and mean reversion
Market making refers broadly to trading strategies that seek to profit by providing liquidity to other traders, while avoiding accumulating a large net position in a stock. In th...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Michael Kearns
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
170views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 26 days ago
Optimal online assignment with forecasts
Motivated by the allocation problem facing publishers in display advertising we formulate the online assignment with forecast problem, a version of the online allocation problem w...
Erik Vee, Sergei Vassilvitskii, Jayavel Shanmugasu...