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ALGOSENSORS
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Self-deployment Algorithms for Mobile Sensors on a Ring
Abstract. We consider the self-deployment problem in a ring for a network of identical sensors: starting from some initial random placement in the ring, the sensors in the network ...
Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro
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FOCS
2008
IEEE
16 years 19 days ago
On the Hardness of Being Truthful
The central problem in computational mechanism design is the tension between incentive compatibility and computational ef ciency. We establish the rst significant approximability ...
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Michael Schapira, Yaron...
ATMOS
2007
138views Optimization» more  ATMOS 2007»
15 years 7 months ago
A new concept of robustness
In this paper a new concept of robustness is introduced and the corresponding optimization problem is stated. This new concept is applied to transportation network designs in which...
Ricardo García, Ángel Marín, ...
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
How Wireless Power Charging Technology Affects Sensor Network Deployment and Routing
—As wireless power charging technology emerges, some basic principles in sensor network design are changed accordingly. Existing sensor node deployment and data routing strategie...
Bin Tong, Zi Li, Guiling Wang, Wensheng Zhang
ACMICEC
2006
ACM
142views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2006»
16 years 5 days ago
Trusting advice from other buyers in e-marketplaces: the problem of unfair ratings
In electronic marketplaces populated by self-interested agents, buyer agents would benefit by modeling the reputation of seller agents, in order to make effective decisions abou...
Jie Zhang, Robin Cohen