This paper takes the first steps towards designing incentive compatible mechanisms for hierarchical decision making problems involving selfish agents. We call these Stackelberg p...
A truthful mechanism consists of an algorithm augmented with a suitable payment function which guarantees that the "players" cannot improve their utilities by "chea...
Congested networks and overloaded servers resulting from the ever growing number of Internet users contribute to the lack of good quality video streaming over the Internet. We pro...
Ethendranath Bommaiah, Katherine Guo, Markus Hofma...
Aggregated search is the task of incorporating results from different specialized search services, or verticals, into Web search results. While most prior work focuses on deciding...
Jaime Arguello, Fernando Diaz, Jamie Callan, Ben C...
Abstract. Agent-based systems that are composed of simple locally interacting agents but which demonstrate complex group behavior o er several advantages over traditional multi-age...