We study the problem of designing a mechanism to rank items in forums by making use of the user reviews such as thumb and star ratings. We compare mechanisms where forum users rat...
Anish Das Sarma, Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollap...
The theoretical price of a financial option is given by the expectation of its discounted expiry time payoff. The computation of this expectation depends on the density of the val...
Cluster analysis is a primary method for database mining. It is either used as a stand-alone tool to get insight into the distribution of a data set, e.g. to focus further analysi...
Mihael Ankerst, Markus M. Breunig, Hans-Peter Krie...
Existing supercomputers have hundreds of thousands of processor cores, and future systems may have hundreds of millions. Developers need detailed performance measurements to tune ...
Todd Gamblin, Bronis R. de Supinski, Martin Schulz...
We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...