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STOC
2009
ACM
167views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Universally utility-maximizing privacy mechanisms
A mechanism for releasing information about a statistical database with sensitive data must resolve a trade-off between utility and privacy. Publishing fully accurate information ...
Arpita Ghosh, Tim Roughgarden, Mukund Sundararajan
CDC
2008
IEEE
186views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Continuous-time behavioral portfolio selection
This paper formulates and studies a general continuous-time behavioral portfolio selection model under Kahneman and Tversky's (cumulative) prospect theory, featuring S-shaped...
Hanqing Jin, Xun Yu Zhou
CORR
2007
Springer
63views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing the SINR operating point of spatial networks
— This paper addresses the following question, which is of interest in the design and deployment of a multiuser decentralized network. Given a total system bandwidth of W Hz and ...
Nihar Jindal, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Steven Weber
JCSS
2008
138views more  JCSS 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Reducing mechanism design to algorithm design via machine learning
We use techniques from sample-complexity in machine learning to reduce problems of incentive-compatible mechanism design to standard algorithmic questions, for a broad class of re...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason D. Hartlin...
WINET
2010
127views more  WINET 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
A Markov Decision Process based flow assignment framework for heterogeneous network access
We consider a scenario where devices with multiple networking capabilities access networks with heterogeneous characteristics. In such a setting, we address the problem of effici...
Jatinder Pal Singh, Tansu Alpcan, Piyush Agrawal, ...