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PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
IPSN
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Robust message-passing for statistical inference in sensor networks
Large-scale sensor network applications require in-network processing and data fusion to compute statistically relevant summaries of the sensed measurements. This paper studies di...
Jeremy Schiff, Dominic Antonelli, Alexandros G. Di...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
111views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A qualitative vickrey auction
Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
Paul Harrenstein, Mathijs de Weerdt, Vincent Conit...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Auction-based multi-robot task allocation in COMSTAR
Over the past few years, swarm based systems have emerged as an attractive paradigm for building large scale distributed systems composed of numerous independent but coordinating ...
Matthew Hoeing, Prithviraj Dasgupta, Plamen V. Pet...
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Algorithm for optimal winner determination in combinatorial auctions
Combinatorial auctions, that is, auctions where bidders can bid on combinations of items, tend to lead to more efficient allocations than traditional auction mechanisms in multi-i...
Tuomas Sandholm