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WINE
2009
Springer
178views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
What Can We Learn Privately?
Learning problems form an important category of computational tasks that generalizes many of the computations researchers apply to large real-life data sets. We ask: what concept ...
Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Homin K. Lee, Kobbi ...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Nugget discovery in visual exploration environments by query consolidation
Queries issued by casual users or specialists exploring a data set often point us to important subsets of the data, be it clusters, outliers or other features of particular import...
Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward
DIALM
2003
ACM
175views Algorithms» more  DIALM 2003»
14 years 21 days ago
Equilibria in topology control games for ad hoc networks
We study topology control problems in ad hoc networks, where network nodes get to choose their power levels in order to ensure desired connectivity properties. Unlike most other w...
Stephan Eidenbenz, V. S. Anil Kumar, Sibylle Zust
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
323views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 8 days ago
Boosting spatial pruning: on optimal pruning of MBRs
Fast query processing of complex objects, e.g. spatial or uncertain objects, depends on efficient spatial pruning of the objects’ approximations, which are typically minimum bou...
Tobias Emrich, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröge...