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2003
ACM
152views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
16 years 4 months ago
Reducing truth-telling online mechanisms to online optimization
We describe a general technique for converting an online algorithm B to a truthtelling mechanism. We require that the original online competitive algorithm has certain "nicen...
Baruch Awerbuch, Yossi Azar, Adam Meyerson
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
162views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
Effective and efficient update of xml in RDBMS
Querying XML effectively and efficiently using declarative languages such as XQuery and XPath has been widely studied in both academic and industrial settings. Most RDBMS vendors ...
Zhen Hua Liu, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, James W. W...
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Automatic generation and maintenance of correct spreadsheets
Existing spreadsheet systems allow users to change cells arbitrarily, which is a major source of spreadsheet errors. We propose a system that prevents errors in spreadsheets by re...
Martin Erwig, Robin Abraham, Irene Cooperstein, St...
ECBS
2009
IEEE
164views Hardware» more  ECBS 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Semantically Enhanced Containers for Concurrent Real-Time Systems
Future space missions, such as Mars Science Laboratory, are built upon computing platforms providing a high degree of autonomy and diverse functionality. The increased sophisticat...
Damian Dechev, Peter Pirkelbauer, Nicolas Rouquett...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Dynamic and Non-uniform Pricing Strategies for Revenue Maximization
We consider the Item Pricing problem for revenue maximization in the limited supply setting, where a single seller with n items caters to m buyers with unknown subadditive valuati...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Zhiyi Huang, Sanjeev Khanna