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IJCAI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Automated Design of Multistage Mechanisms
Mechanism design is the study of preference aggregation protocols that work well in the face of self-interested agents. We present the first general-purpose techniques for automa...
Tuomas Sandholm, Vincent Conitzer, Craig Boutilier
MM
2009
ACM
195views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
The effectiveness of intelligent scheduling for multicast video-on-demand
As more and more video content is made available and accessed on-demand, content and service providers face challenges of scale. Today’s delivery mechanisms, especially unicast,...
Vaneet Aggarwal, A. Robert Calderbank, Vijay Gopal...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Predictive Buffering for Multi-Source Video Streaming over the Internet
—The current best-effort Internet does not guarantee the bandwidth availability between a receiver and a sender, and so renders any quality-of-service (QoS) control difficult, if...
P. Y. Ho, Jack Y. B. Lee
CORR
2008
Springer
116views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Polynomial Filtering for Fast Convergence in Distributed Consensus
Abstract--In the past few years, the problem of distributed consensus has received a lot of attention, particularly in the framework of ad hoc sensor networks. Most methods propose...
Effrosini Kokiopoulou, Pascal Frossard
HPDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Peer-to-peer checkpointing arrangement for mobile grid computing systems
This paper deals with a novel, distributed, QoS-aware, peer-topeer checkpointing arrangement component for mobile Grid (MoG) computing systems middleware. Checkpointing is more cr...
Paul J. Darby III, Nian-Feng Tzeng