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SIGECOM
2006
ACM
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Empirical mechanism design: methods, with application to a supply-chain scenario
Our proposed methods employ learning and search techniques to estimate outcome features of interest as a function of mechanism parameter settings. We illustrate our approach with ...
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Christopher Kiekintveld, Mic...
JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Unfairness Metrics for Space-Sharing Parallel Job Schedulers
Sociology, computer networking and operations research provide evidence of the importance of fairness in queuing disciplines. Currently, there is no accepted model for characteriz...
Gerald Sabin, P. Sadayappan
MATES
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Semantic Methods for P2P Query Routing
Knowledge sharing in a virtual organization requires a knowledge life cycle including knowledge provisioning, terminology alignment, determination of resource location, query routi...
Alexander Löser, Steffen Staab, Christoph Tem...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
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Robust incentive techniques for peer-to-peer networks
Lack of cooperation (free riding) is one of the key problems that confronts today’s P2P systems. What makes this problem particularly difficult is the unique set of challenges ...
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Ion Stoica, John Chuang
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Fitting and Compilation of Multiagent Models through Piecewise Linear Functions
Decision-theoretic models have become increasingly popular as a basis for solving agent and multiagent problems, due to their ability to quantify the complex uncertainty and prefe...
David V. Pynadath, Stacy Marsella