Combinatorial auctions are important as they enable bidders to place bids on combinations of items; compared to other auction mechanisms, they often increase the efficiency of the...
An event correlation is becoming an important service in event-based middleware allowing subscribers in publish/subscribe paradigm to consume patterns of events (composite events)...
We consider two basic computational problems regarding discrete probability distributions: (1) approximating the statistical difference (aka variation distance) between two given d...
In multiagent settings where agents have different preferences, preference aggregation can be an important issue. Voting is a general method to aggregate preferences. We consider ...
With the growing complexity in computer systems, it has been a real challenge to detect and diagnose problems in today’s large-scale distributed systems. Usually, the correlatio...