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WINE
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Market Equilibrium Using Auctions for a Class of Gross-Substitute Utilities
In addition to useful Economic interpretation, auction based algorithms are generally found to be efficient. In this note, we observe that the auction-based mechanism can also be u...
Rahul Garg, Sanjiv Kapoor
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Maximizing revenue in symmetric resource allocation systems when user utilities exhibit diminishing returns
Consumers of resources in realistic applications (e.g., web, multimedia) typically derive diminishing-return utilities from the amount of resource they receive. A resource provide...
Roie Zivan, Miroslav Dudík, Praveen Paruchu...
APNOMS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Performance Analysis of a Centralized Resource Allocation Mechanism for Time-Slotted OBS Networks
Time-Slotted Optical Burst Switching (TS-OBS) is one of the most promising next-generation transport network technologies. This paper proposes a time-slot assignment procedure usin...
Tai-Won Um, Jun Kyun Choi, Seong Gon Choi, Won Ryu
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
On the Role of Contextual Weak Independence in Probabilistic Inference
Previous experimental results have clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of utilizing context-specific independence (CSI) in probabilistic inference. However, CSI is a special cas...
Cory J. Butz, Manon J. Sanscartier
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Utile Function Optimizer
Abstract— We recast the problem of unconstrained continuous evolutionary optimization as inference in a fixed graphical model. This approach allows us to address several pervasi...
Christopher K. Monson, Kevin D. Seppi, James L. Ca...