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APPROX
2009
Springer
142views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
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Truthful Mechanisms via Greedy Iterative Packing
An important research thread in algorithmic game theory studies the design of efficient truthful mechanisms that approximate the optimal social welfare. A fundamental question is ...
Chandra Chekuri, Iftah Gamzu
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Pragmatic-strategic reputation-based decisions in BDI agents
Computational trust and reputation models have been recognized as one of the key technologies required to design and implement agent systems. These models manage and aggregate the...
Isaac Pinyol, Jordi Sabater-Mir
GROUP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Toward technologies that support family reflections on health
Previous research has explored how technology can motivate healthy living in social groups such as friends and coworkers. However, little research has focused on the implications ...
Andrea Grimes, Desney S. Tan, Dan Morris
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
216views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
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Approximate mechanism design without money
The literature on algorithmic mechanism design is mostly concerned with game-theoretic versions of optimization problems to which standard economic money-based mechanisms cannot b...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Moshe Tennenholtz
W4A
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Virtual teaching in a society of learning
: This article relates a reflexion on the experience of authors as teachers in the E-learning modality of university-level teaching. Presently we live in the peak of the new techno...
António Eduardo Martins, Felipa lopes dos R...