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SODA
2010
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Incentive Compatible Budget Elicitation in Multi-unit Auctions
In this paper, we consider the problem of designing incentive compatible auctions for multiple (homogeneous) units of a good, when bidders have private valuations and private budg...
Sayan Bhattacharya, Vincent Conitzer, Kamesh Munag...
SODA
2010
ACM
169views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Efficiently Decodable Non-adaptive Group Testing
We consider the following "efficiently decodable" nonadaptive group testing problem. There is an unknown string x {0, 1}n with at most d ones in it. We are allowed to t...
Piotr Indyk, Hung Q. Ngo, Atri Rudra
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
CPAIOR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Optimal Interdiction of Unreactive Markovian Evaders
The interdiction problem arises in a variety of areas including military logistics, infectious disease control, and counter-terrorism. In the typical formulation of network interdi...
Alexander Gutfraind, Aric A. Hagberg, Feng Pan
ICDM
2005
IEEE
125views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Alternate Representation of Distance Matrices for Characterization of Protein Structure
The most suitable method for the automated classification of protein structures remains an open problem in computational biology. In order to classify a protein structure with an...
Keith Marsolo, Srinivasan Parthasarathy