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ACMICEC
2007
ACM
148views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Pricing digital content with DRM mechanism
The Internet and file sharing technology (such as P2P network) significantly alleviate the content distribution cost. However, better digital content distribution also means that ...
Yung-Ming Li, Chia-Hao Lin
ICC
2007
IEEE
139views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Comparison of Protection Mechanisms: Capacity Efficiency and Recovery Time
High efficiency in capacity utilization and fast restoration are two primary goals of survivable design in optical networks. Shared backup path protection has been shown to be effi...
Wensheng He, Arun K. Somani
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Approximation Algorithms and Mechanism Design for Minimax Approval Voting
We consider approval voting elections in which each voter votes for a (possibly empty) set of candidates and the outcome consists of a set of k candidates for some parameter k, e....
Ioannis Caragiannis, Dimitris Kalaitzis, Evangelos...
CORR
2004
Springer
180views Education» more  CORR 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Self-Organized Stigmergic Document Maps: Environment as a Mechanism for Context Learning
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
Vitorino Ramos, Juan J. Merelo Guervós
ICALP
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Power of Verification for One-Parameter Agents
We initiate the study of mechanisms with verification for one-parameter agents. We give an algorithmic characterization of such mechanisms and show that they are provably better ...
Vincenzo Auletta, Roberto De Prisco, Paolo Penna, ...