— Although cooperation generally increases the amount of resources available to a community of nodes, thus improving individual and collective performance, it also allows for the...
We study peer-to-peer ðP2PÞ data integration, where each peer models an autonomous system that exports data in terms of its own schema, and data interoperation is achieved by me...
Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lem...
Abstract. Although knowledge is a central topic for MKM there is little explicit discussion on what ‘knowledge’ might actually be. There are specific intuitions about form and...
Abstract. We provide the first strongly polynomial time exact combinatorial algorithm to compute Fisher equilibrium for the case when utility functions do not satisfy the Gross su...
Dinesh Garg, Kamal Jain, Kunal Talwar, Vijay V. Va...
Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...