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ICPP
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Optimal Video Replication and Placement on a Cluster of Video-on-Demand Servers
A cost-effective approach to building up scalable Videoon-Demand (VoD) servers is to couple a number of VoD servers together in a cluster. In this article, we study a crucial vide...
Xiaobo Zhou, Cheng-Zhong Xu
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
A Truthful Mechanism for Offline Ad Slot Scheduling
We consider the Offline Ad Slot Scheduling problem, where advertisers must be scheduled to sponsored search slots during a given period of time. Advertisers specify a budget constr...
Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, Evdokia Nikolova, M...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Distributed management of flexible times schedules
In this paper we consider the problem of managing and exploiting schedules in an uncertain and distributed environment. We assume a team of collaborative agents, each responsible ...
Stephen F. Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimm...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimal-in-expectation redistribution mechanisms
Many important problems in multiagent systems involve the allocation of multiple resources among the agents. If agents are self-interested, they will lie about their valuations fo...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Hierarchical Network Formation Games in the Uplink of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
— In this paper, we propose a game theoretic approach to tackle the problem of the distributed formation of the hierarchical network architecture that connects the nodes in the u...
Walid Saad, Quanyan Zhu, Tamer Basar, Zhu Han, Are...