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...
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...
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...
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...
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...