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IJAHUC
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Connectivity of a Gaussian network
: Following Etherington, Hoge and Parkes, we consider a network consisting of (approximately) N transceivers in the plane R2 distributed randomly with density given by a Gaussian d...
Paul N. Balister, Béla Bollobás, Ami...
JCSS
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Ramsey-type theorems for metric spaces with applications to online problems
A nearly logarithmic lower bound on the randomized competitive ratio for the metrical task systems problem is presented. This implies a similar lower bound for the extensively stu...
Yair Bartal, Béla Bollobás, Manor Me...
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CORR
2011
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
Mean-Variance Optimization in Markov Decision Processes
We consider finite horizon Markov decision processes under performance measures that involve both the mean and the variance of the cumulative reward. We show that either randomiz...
Shie Mannor, John N. Tsitsiklis
FOCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 29 days ago
Dynamic and Non-uniform Pricing Strategies for Revenue Maximization
We consider the Item Pricing problem for revenue maximization in the limited supply setting, where a single seller with n items caters to m buyers with unknown subadditive valuati...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Zhiyi Huang, Sanjeev Khanna
ESA
2009
Springer
156views Algorithms» more  ESA 2009»
16 years 23 days ago
On Revenue Maximization in Second-Price Ad Auctions
Abstract. Most recent papers addressing the algorithmic problem of allocating advertisement space for keywords in sponsored search auctions assume that pricing is done via a first...
Yossi Azar, Benjamin E. Birnbaum, Anna R. Karlin, ...