We consider the loss in social welfare caused by individual rationality in matching scenarios. We give both theoretical and experimental results comparing stable matchings with soc...
The design of sensor networks capable of reaching a consensus on a globally optimal decision test, without the need for a fusion center, is a problem that has received considerable...
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Many advertisers (bidders) use Internet systems to buy advertisements on publishers' webpages or on traditional media such as radio, TV and newsprint. They seek a simple, onl...
Florin Constantin, Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, ...
Congestion avoidance mechanisms allow a network to operate in the optimal region of low delay and high throughput, thereby, preventing the network from becoming congested. This is ...