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SIGECOM
2008
ACM
155views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 8 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...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Web Search as a Stochastic Game
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
COMPSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to the Anxious Home for Activity Monitoring
This paper describes an approach to representing normal activities in a smart house based on the concept of anxiety. Anxiety is computed as a function of time and is kept low by i...
Geoff A. W. West, Stewart Greenhill, Svetha Venkat...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Tag data and personalized information retrieval
Researchers investigating personalization techniques for Web Information Retrieval face a challenge; that the data required to perform evaluations, namely query logs and clickthro...
Mark James Carman, Mark Baillie, Fabio Crestani
ICDT
2003
ACM
132views Database» more  ICDT 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Probabilistic Interval XML
Interest in XML databases has been growing over the last few years. In this paper, we study the problem of incorporating probabilistic information into XML databases. We propose th...
Edward Hung, Lise Getoor, V. S. Subrahmanian