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IPPS
2002
IEEE
14 years 19 days ago
Performance Prediction Technology for Agent-Based Resource Management in Grid Environments
Resource management constitutes an important infrastructural component of a computational grid environment. The aim of grid resource management is to efficiently schedule applicat...
Junwei Cao, Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, ...
STOC
2010
ACM
295views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
14 years 17 days ago
Approximation Schemes for Steiner Forest on Planar Graphs and Graphs of Bounded Treewidth
We give the first polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the Steiner forest problem on planar graphs and, more generally, on graphs of bounded genus. As a first step, w...
MohammadHossein Bateni, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi a...
ICDT
2010
ACM
205views Database» more  ICDT 2010»
14 years 17 days ago
On the Aggregation Problem for Synthesized Web Services
The paper formulates and investigates the aggregation problem for synthesized mediators of Web services (SWMs). An SWM is a finite-state transducer defined in terms of templates...
Ting Deng, Wenfei Fan, Leonid Libkin, Yinghui Wu
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 16 days ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
170views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 16 days ago
Optimal online assignment with forecasts
Motivated by the allocation problem facing publishers in display advertising we formulate the online assignment with forecast problem, a version of the online allocation problem w...
Erik Vee, Sergei Vassilvitskii, Jayavel Shanmugasu...