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TLCA
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Parametricity for Haskell with Imprecise Error Semantics
Types play an important role both in reasoning about Haskell and for its implementation. For example, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler performs certain fusion transformations that are...
Florian Stenger, Janis Voigtländer
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Protocols and Impossibility Results for Gossip-Based Communication Mechanisms
In recent years, gossip-based algorithms have gained prominence as a methodology for designing robust and scalable communication schemes in large distributed systems. The premise ...
David Kempe, Jon M. Kleinberg
GIS
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Algorithms for the placement of diagrams on maps
This paper discusses a variety of ways to place diagrams like pie charts on maps, in particular, administrative subdivisions. The different ways come from different models of the ...
Étienne Schramm, Alexander Wolff, Marc J. v...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months 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
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Altruism in Congestion Games
This paper studies the effects of introducing altruistic agents into atomic congestion games. Altruistic behavior is modeled by a trade-off between selfish and social objectives. ...
Martin Hoefer, Alexander Skopalik