This paper presents a new way of formalizing the Coalition Structure Generation problem (CSG), so that we can apply constraint optimization techniques to it. Forming effective coal...
Naoki Ohta, Vincent Conitzer, Ryo Ichimura, Yuko S...
In this paper, we describe the operation of barter trade exchanges by identifying key techniques used by trade brokers to stimulate trade and satisfy member needs, and present alg...
Peter Haddawy, Namthip Rujikeadkumjorn, Khaimook D...
IPTV service providers offering Video-on-Demandcurrently use servers at each metropolitan office to store all the videos in their library. With the rapid increase in library sizes...
David Applegate, Aaron Archer, Vijay Gopalakrishna...
A vital task facing government agencies and commercial organizations that report data is to represent the data in a meaningful way and simultaneously to protect the confidentialit...
Fred Glover, Lawrence H. Cox, Rahul Patil, James P...
This paper extends our previous work by exploring the use of a hybrid solution method for solving the connection subgraph problem. We employ a two phase solution method, which dras...
Carla P. Gomes, Willem Jan van Hoeve, Ashish Sabha...