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SODA
2010
ACM
201views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Incentive Compatible Budget Elicitation in Multi-unit Auctions
In this paper, we consider the problem of designing incentive compatible auctions for multiple (homogeneous) units of a good, when bidders have private valuations and private budg...
Sayan Bhattacharya, Vincent Conitzer, Kamesh Munag...
FCS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Coordinating Planning Agents for Moderately and Tightly-Coupled Tasks
In many task-planning domains, dynamic assemblies of autonomous agents are replacing hierarchical organisations because they promise more agility. In such assemblies, interdepende...
J. Renze Steenhuisen, Cees Witteveen
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Generating Robust Partial Order Schedules
This paper considers the problem of transforming a resource feasible, fixed-times schedule into a partial order schedule (POS) to enhance its robustness and stability properties. ...
Nicola Policella, Angelo Oddi, Stephen F. Smith, A...
CORR
2010
Springer
98views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Structure-Aware Stochastic Control for Transmission Scheduling
In this report, we consider the problem of real-time transmission scheduling over time-varying channels. We first formulate the transmission scheduling problem as a Markov decisio...
Fangwen Fu, Mihaela van der Schaar
VLDB
1998
ACM
82views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
14 years 20 days ago
Resource Scheduling for Composite Multimedia Objects
Scheduling algorithms for composite multimedia presentations need to ensure that the user-defined synchronization constraints for the various presentation components are met. This...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Banu &O...