Sequential single-item auctions can be used for the distributed allocation of tasks to cooperating agents. We study how to improve the team performance of sequential singleitem au...
Sven Koenig, Xiaoming Zheng, Craig A. Tovey, Richa...
Abstract Steph Durocher∗ and David Kirkpatrick† Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia Vancouver BC, Canada Given a set of client positions as input, f...
The K-Closest-Pairs Query (K-CPQ), a type of distance join in spatial databases, discovers the K pairs of objects formed from two different datasets with the K smallest distances....
Antonio Corral, Yannis Manolopoulos, Yannis Theodo...
The price of anarchy (POA) is a worst-case measure of the inefficiency of selfish behavior, defined as the ratio of the objective function value of a worst Nash equilibrium of a g...
Ever since the `early days' of database management systems, clustering has proven to be one of the most effective performance enhancement techniques for object oriented datab...