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SAGT
2009
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
On the Planner's Loss Due to Lack of Information in Bayesian Mechanism Design
In this paper we study a large class of resource allocation problems with an important complication, the utilization cost of a given resource is private information of a profit ma...
José R. Correa, Nicolas Figueroa
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
92views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
True costs of cheap labor are hard to measure: edge deletion and VCG payments in graphs
We address the problem of lowering the buyer’s expected payments in shortest path auctions, where the buyer’s goal is to purchase a path in a graph in which edges are owned by...
Edith Elkind
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
The cost of interrupted work: more speed and stress
We performed an empirical study to investigate whether the context of interruptions makes a difference. We found that context does not make a difference but surprisingly, people c...
Gloria Mark, Daniela Gudith, Ulrich Klocke
ICNP
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Receiver-based Multicast Scoping: A New Cost-Conscious Join/Leave Paradigm
In Internet multicast, the set of receivers can be dynamic with receivers joining and leaving a group asynchronously and without the knowledge of the sources. The Internet today u...
George F. Riley, Mostafa H. Ammar, Lenitra M. Clay
SPAA
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Towards optimizing energy costs of algorithms for shared memory architectures
Energy consumption by computer systems has emerged as an important concern. However, the energy consumed in executing an algorithm cannot be inferred from its performance alone: i...
Vijay Anand Korthikanti, Gul Agha