We examine the problem of determining a user's value for his/her private information. Web businesses often offer rewards, such as discounts, free downloads and website persona...
Scott Buffett, Nathan Scott, Bruce Spencer, Michae...
Problem determination remains one of the most expensive and time-consuming functions in system management due to the difficulty in automating what is essentially a highly experien...
Hai Huang, Raymond B. Jennings III, Yaoping Ruan, ...
Abstract. We present a Lagrangian-based heuristic LAHA for the Winner Determination Problem in Combinatorial Auctions. The algorithm makes use of the market computing power by appl...
Usually a voting rule requires agents to give their preferences as linear orders. However, in some cases it is impractical for an agent to give a linear order over all the alterna...
Abstract. Recent work on analyzing query logs shows that a significant fraction of queries are temporal, i.e., relevancy is dependent on time, and temporal queries play an importan...