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ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
ICIP
2007
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Content Adaptive Heterogeneous Snakes
Active contour (snake) approaches have been proved to be efficient tools to extract object boundary precisely. One drawback of these methods is that state-of-the-art snake algorit...
András Hajdu, Ioannis Pitas
HICSS
2007
IEEE
112views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
E-Risk Management through Self Insurance: An Option Model
e-business organizations are under constant threat of their business being disrupted by hackers, viruses and a host of malicious attackers. This would lead to loses to the tune of...
Arunabha Mukhopadhyay, Binay Bhushan, Debashis Sah...
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Performance Analysis of Stealth DHT with Mobile Nodes
The advances in wireless networking and the consequent emergence of new applications that wireless networks increasingly support inevitably leads to low capability mobile nodes co...
Andrew MacQuire, Andrew Brampton, Idris A. Rai, La...
WINE
2007
Springer
193views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 1 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