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FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the Hardness of Being Truthful
The central problem in computational mechanism design is the tension between incentive compatibility and computational ef ciency. We establish the rst significant approximability ...
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Michael Schapira, Yaron...
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Efficient Acquisition of Web Data through Restricted Query Interfaces
A wealth of information is available on the Web. But often, such data are hidden behind form interfaces which allow only a restrictive set of queries over the underlying databases...
Cláudio T. Silva, Juliana Freire, Simon Bye...
ESA
2004
Springer
126views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Path Decomposition Under a New Cost Measure with Applications to Optical Network Design
We introduce a problem directly inspired by its application to DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) network design. We are given a set of demands to be carried over a netw...
Elliot Anshelevich, Lisa Zhang
IJAIT
2002
81views more  IJAIT 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
Guiding Constructive Search with Statistical Instance-Based Learning
Several real world applications involve solving combinatorial optimization problems. Commonly, existing heuristic approaches are designed to address specific difficulties of the u...
Orestis Telelis, Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
ICCAD
2001
IEEE
107views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2001»
14 years 5 months ago
A Convex Programming Approach to Positive Real Rational Approximation
As system integration evolves and tighter design constraints must be met, it becomes necessary to account for the non-ideal behavior of all the elements in a system. Certain devic...
Carlos P. Coelho, Joel R. Phillips, Luis Miguel Si...