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2009
ACM
96views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
MaxMin allocation via degree lower-bounded arborescences
We consider the problem of MaxMin allocation of indivisible goods. There are m items to be distributed among n players. Each player i has a nonnegative valuation pij for an item j...
MohammadHossein Bateni, Moses Charikar, Venkatesan...
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
155views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Tight information-theoretic lower bounds for welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions
We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Michael Schapira, Jan Vondr&aac...
UIST
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Viz: a visual analysis suite for explaining local search behavior
NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems are common in real life. Due to their intractability, local search algorithms are often used to solve such problems. Since these algori...
Steven Halim, Roland H. C. Yap, Hoong Chuin Lau
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Externalities in online advertising
Most models for online advertising assume that an advertiser's value from winning an ad auction, which depends on the clickthrough rate or conversion rate of the advertisemen...
Arpita Ghosh, Mohammad Mahdian
STOC
2010
ACM
204views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
14 years 10 days ago
Interactive privacy via the median mechanism
We define a new interactive differentially private mechanism — the median mechanism — for answering arbitrary predicate queries that arrive online. Given fixed accuracy and...
Aaron Roth, Tim Roughgarden