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SODA
2010
ACM
201views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 6 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...
ICPP
1998
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
Improving Parallel-Disk Buffer Management using Randomized Writeback
We address the problems of I/O scheduling and buffer management for general reference strings in a parallel I/O system. Using the standard parallel disk model withD disks and a sh...
Mahesh Kallahalla, Peter J. Varman
WINE
2007
Springer
193views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Auctions with Revenue Guarantees for Sponsored Search
We consider the problem of designing auctions with worst case revenue guarantees for sponsored search. This problem differs from previous work because of ad dependent clickthroug...
Zoë Abrams, Arpita Ghosh
CSO
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Competitive Analysis of Online Price Discount Replacement Problem
When a paid price discount activity occurs, the decisionmaker must decide whether or not and when to pay the additional fees for preferential price in an online fashion. This prob...
Lili Ding, Xinmin Liu, Wanglin Kang
SIAMCOMP
2012
11 years 11 months ago
Randomized Competitive Algorithms for Generalized Caching
We consider online algorithms for the generalized caching problem. Here we are given a cache of size k and pages with arbitrary sizes and fetching costs. Given a request sequence ...
Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder, Joseph Naor