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SIGECOM
2005
ACM
101views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Fairness and optimality in congestion games
We study two problems, that of computing social optimum and that of finding fair allocations, in the congestion game model of Milchtaich[8] Although we show that the general prob...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Aranyak Mehta, Viswanath Na...
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Confusion and Distance Metrics as Performance Criteria for Hierarchical Classification Spaces
When intelligent systems reason about complex problems with a large hierarchical classification space it is hard to evaluate system performance. For classification problems, differ...
Wilbert van Norden, Catholijn M. Jonker
AAAI
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Mechanisms for Partial Information Elicitation: The Truth, but Not the Whole Truth
We examine a setting in which a buyer wishes to purchase probabilistic information from some agent. The seller must invest effort in order to gain access to the information, and m...
Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
EKNOW
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Process Diagnostics: A Method Based on Process Mining
As organizations change, their information systems can evolve from simple systems to complex systems, which are hard to understand, and therefore hard to maintain or extend. Proces...
Melike Bozkaya, Joost Gabriels, Jan Martijn E. M. ...
FOCS
1995
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
Free Bits, PCPs and Non-Approximability - Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan