One difficulty that arises in abstract argument systems is that many natural questions regarding argument acceptability are, in general, computationally intractable having been c...
In set-system auctions, there are several overlapping teams of agents, and a task that can be completed by any of these teams. The auctioneer's goal is to hire a team and pay...
Edith Elkind, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldber...
Abstract—We consider the problem of side-information scalable (SI-scalable) source coding, where the encoder constructs a two-layer description, such that the receiver with high ...
Variable-to-variable codes are very attractive yet not well understood data compression schemes. In 1972 Khodak claimed to provide upper and lower bounds for the achievable redund...
Yann Bugeaud, Michael Drmota, Wojciech Szpankowski
We show two new direct product results in two different models of communication complexity. Our first result is in the model of one-way public-coin model. Let f ⊆ X × Y × Z ...