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ESA
2008
Springer
124views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Collusion-Resistant Mechanisms with Verification Yielding Optimal Solutions
A truthful mechanism consists of an algorithm augmented with a suitable payment function which guarantees that the "players" cannot improve their utilities by "chea...
Paolo Penna, Carmine Ventre
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Powerful Direct Mechanism for Optimal WWW Content Replication
This paper addresses the problem of fine-grained data replication in large distributed systems, such as the Internet, so as to minimize the user access delays. With fine-grained d...
Samee Ullah Khan, Ishfaq Ahmad
GECCO
2009
Springer
153views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 7 days ago
An evaporation mechanism for dynamic and noisy multimodal optimization
Dealing with imprecise information is a common characteristic in real-world problems. Specifically, when the source of the information are physical sensors, a level of noise in t...
Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Josep Lluís Ar...
GECCO
2009
Springer
157views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Multi material topological optimization of structures and mechanisms
Multi-material 3D-printing technologies permit the freeform fabrication of complex spatial arrangements of materials in arbitrary geometries. This technology has opened the door t...
Jonathan D. Hiller, Hod Lipson
FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Truthful and Near-Optimal Mechanism Design via Linear Programming
We give a general technique to obtain approximation mechanisms that are truthful in expectation. We show that for packing domains, any α-approximation algorithm that also bounds ...
Ron Lavi, Chaitanya Swamy