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WINE
2009
Springer
178views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman
PLDI
2003
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Meta optimization: improving compiler heuristics with machine learning
Compiler writers have crafted many heuristics over the years to approximately solve NP-hard problems efficiently. Finding a heuristic that performs well on a broad range of applic...
Mark Stephenson, Saman P. Amarasinghe, Martin C. M...
VLDB
2004
ACM
134views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 27 days ago
Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks
Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that “the sensornet is a database” is problematic,...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Samuel Madden, Jo...
KDD
2009
ACM
305views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Grocery shopping recommendations based on basket-sensitive random walk
We describe a recommender system in the domain of grocery shopping. While recommender systems have been widely studied, this is mostly in relation to leisure products (e.g. movies...
Ming Li, M. Benjamin Dias, Ian H. Jarman, Wael El-...
BIRTHDAY
2003
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
On the Pagination of Complex Documents
The pagination problem of complex documents is in placing text and floating objects on pages in such a way that each object appears close to, but not before, its text reference. ...
Anne Brüggemann-Klein, Rolf Klein, Stefan Woh...