Existing keyword suggestion tools from various search engine companies could automatically suggest keywords related to the advertisers' products or services, counting in simp...
Gang Wang, Jian Hu, Yunzhang Zhu, Hua Li, Zheng Ch...
Grid resource allocation is a complex task that is usually solved by systems relying on a centralized information system. In order to create a lightweight scheduling system, we inv...
Mathias Dalheimer, Franz-Josef Pfreundt, Peter Mer...
This paper examines a generalization of a two-stage game common on eBay: an ascending-price auction followed by price discrimination (the second chance offer). High bids in the a...
—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
In a multi-armed bandit problem, an online algorithm chooses from a set of strategies in a sequence of n trials so as to maximize the total payoff of the chosen strategies. While ...