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ICDT
2009
ACM
147views Database» more  ICDT 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
The average-case complexity of counting distinct elements
We continue the study of approximating the number of distinct elements in a data stream of length n to within a (1? ) factor. It is known that if the stream may consist of arbitra...
David P. Woodruff
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Bid optimization for broad match ad auctions
Ad auctions in sponsored search support"broad match"that allows an advertiser to target a large number of queries while bidding only on a limited number. While giving mo...
Eyal Even-Dar, Vahab S. Mirrokni, S. Muthukrishnan...
COMGEO
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Routing multi-class traffic flows in the plane
We study a class of multi-commodity flow problems in geometric domains: For a given planar domain P populated with obstacles (holes) of K ≥ 2 types, compute a set of thick path...
Joondong Kim, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Valentin Poli...
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
219views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
GSP auctions with correlated types
The Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction is the primary method by which sponsered search advertisements are sold. We study the performance of this auction in the Bayesian settin...
Brendan Lucier, Renato Paes Leme
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 7 days ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan