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STOC
2009
ACM
167views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
On the complexity of communication complexity
We consider the following question: given a two-argument boolean function f, represented as an N ? N binary matrix, how hard is to determine the (deterministic) communication comp...
Eyal Kushilevitz, Enav Weinreb
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On Allocating Goods to Maximize Fairness
Given a set A of m agents and a set I of n items, where agent A ∈ A has utility uA,i for item i ∈ I, our goal is to allocate items to agents to maximize fairness. Specificall...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Julia Chuzhoy, Sanjeev Khan...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
147views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 6 days ago
Socially desirable approximations for Dodgson's voting rule
In 1876 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson suggested the intriguing voting rule that today bears his name. Although Dodgson’s rule is one of the most well-studied voting rules, it suffers...
Ioannis Caragiannis, Christos Kaklamanis, Nikos Ka...
ATMOS
2007
177views Optimization» more  ATMOS 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Approximate dynamic programming for rail operations
Abstract. Approximate dynamic programming offers a new modeling and algorithmic strategy for complex problems such as rail operations. Problems in rail operations are often modeled...
Warren B. Powell, Belgacem Bouzaïene-Ayari
WINE
2009
Springer
147views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
Computational Aspects of Multimarket Price Wars
We consider the complexity of decision making with regards to predatory pricing in multimarket oligopoly models. Specifically, we present multimarket extensions of the classical s...
Nithum Thain, Adrian Vetta