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WSC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Randomized methods for solving the Winner Determination Problem in combinatorial auctions
Combinatorial auctions, where buyers can bid on bundles of items rather than bidding them sequentially, often lead to more economically efficient allocations of financial resource...
Joshua C. C. Chan, Dirk P. Kroese
UAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Parallelism orchestration using DoPE: the degree of parallelism executive
In writing parallel programs, programmers expose parallelism and optimize it to meet a particular performance goal on a single platform under an assumed set of workload characteri...
Arun Raman, Hanjun Kim, Taewook Oh, Jae W. Lee, Da...
TVCG
2012
182views Hardware» more  TVCG 2012»
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ISP: An Optimal Out-of-Core Image-Set Processing Streaming Architecture for Parallel Heterogeneous Systems
—Image population analysis is the class of statistical methods that plays a central role in understanding the development, evolution and disease of a population. However, these t...
Linh K. Ha, Jens Krüger, João Luiz Dih...
CC
2012
Springer
243views System Software» more  CC 2012»
12 years 4 months ago
Sambamba: A Runtime System for Online Adaptive Parallelization
Abstract. How can we exploit a microprocessor as efficiently as possible? The “classic” approach is static optimization at compile-time, optimizing a program for all possible u...
Kevin Streit, Clemens Hammacher, Andreas Zeller, S...