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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Optimizing relevance and revenue in ad search: a query substitution approach
The primary business model behind Web search is based on textual advertising, where contextually relevant ads are displayed alongside search results. We address the problem of sel...
Filip Radlinski, Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, ...
EOR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A survey on the continuous nonlinear resource allocation problem
Our problem of interest consists of minimizing a separable, convex and differentiable function over a convex set, defined by bounds on the variables and an explicit constraint des...
Michael Patriksson
CCS
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Fashion crimes: trending-term exploitation on the web
Online service providers are engaged in constant conflict with miscreants who try to siphon a portion of legitimate traffic to make illicit profits. We study the abuse of “tr...
Tyler Moore, Nektarios Leontiadis, Nicolas Christi...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Finding approximate competitive equilibria: efficient and fair course allocation
In the course allocation problem, a university administrator seeks to efficiently and fairly allocate schedules of over-demanded courses to students with heterogeneous preferences...
Abraham Othman, Tuomas Sandholm, Eric Budish
CP
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Combinatorial Search
Abstract. Combinatorial search methods often exhibit a large variability in performance. We study the cost pro les of combinatorial search procedures. Our study reveals some intrig...
Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman, Nuno Crato