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IPPS
1997
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Tool for On-line Visualization and Interactive Steering of Parallel HPC Applications
Tools for parallel systems today range from specification over debugging to performance analysis and more. Typically, they help the programmers of parallel algorithms from the ea...
Sabine Rathmayer
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Complexity of terminating preference elicitation
Complexity theory is a useful tool to study computational issues surrounding the elicitation of preferences, as well as the strategic manipulation of elections aggregating togethe...
Toby Walsh
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evolutionary dynamics for designing multi-period auctions
Mechanism design (MD) has recently become a very popular approach in the design of distributed systems of autonomous agents. A key assumption required for the application of MD is...
Tomas Klos, Gerrit Jan van Ahee
COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Adapting to a Changing Environment: the Brownian Restless Bandits
In the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem there are k distributions associated with the rewards of playing each of k strategies (slot machine arms). The reward distributions are ini...
Aleksandrs Slivkins, Eli Upfal