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SOFSEM
2010
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
On the Complexity of the Highway Pricing Problem
Abstract. The highway pricing problem asks for prices to be determined for segments of a single highway such as to maximize the revenue obtainable from a given set of customers wit...
Alexander Grigoriev, Joyce van Loon, Marc Uetz
EOR
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Approximate methods for convex minimization problems with series-parallel structure
Consider a problem of minimizing a separable, strictly convex, monotone and differentiable function on a convex polyhedron generated by a system of m linear inequalities. The probl...
Adi Ben-Israel, Genrikh Levin, Yuri Levin, Boris R...
AAAI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
An Ironing-Based Approach to Adaptive Online Mechanism Design in Single-Valued Domains
Online mechanism design considers the problem of sequential decision making in a multi-agent system with self-interested agents. The agent population is dynamic and each agent has...
David C. Parkes, Quang Duong
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Contraction Approach to Power Control, with Non-Monotonic Applications
Abstract—In wireless networks, monotonic, strictly subhomogeneous functions have been used to analyze power control algorithms. We provide an alternative analysis based on the ob...
Carl J. Nuzman
APPROX
2007
Springer
67views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Maximum Gradient Embeddings and Monotone Clustering
abstract Manor Mendel1 and Assaf Naor2 1 The Open University of Israel 2 Courant Institute Let (X, dX ) be an n-point metric space. We show that there exists a distribution D over ...
Manor Mendel, Assaf Naor