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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 8 days ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
GECCO
2010
Springer
244views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Implicit fitness and heterogeneous preferences in the genetic algorithm
This paper takes an economic approach to derive an evolutionary learning model based entirely on the endogenous employment of genetic operators in the service of self-interested a...
Justin T. H. Smith
AIME
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Variable Selection for Optimal Decision Making
This paper discusses variable selection for medical decision making; in particular decisions regarding when to provide treatment and which treatment to provide. Current variable se...
Lacey Gunter, Ji Zhu, Susan Murphy
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Storage Management of Evolving Files in Delay Tolerant Ad Hoc Networks
— This work focuses on a class of distributed storage systems whose content may evolve over time. Each component or node of the storage system is mobile and the set of all nodes ...
Eitan Altaian, Philippe Nain, Jean-Claude Bermond
ICC
2007
IEEE
151views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Sensing-Throughput Tradeoff for Cognitive Radio Networks
— In cognitive radio networks, the secondary network (users) are allowed to utilize the frequency bands of primary network (users) when they are not currently being used. To supp...
Ying-Chang Liang, Yonghong Zeng, Edward Chu Yeow P...