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ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Risk-averse auction agents
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
Yaxin Liu, Richard Goodwin, Sven Koenig
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Protocols and Impossibility Results for Gossip-Based Communication Mechanisms
In recent years, gossip-based algorithms have gained prominence as a methodology for designing robust and scalable communication schemes in large distributed systems. The premise ...
David Kempe, Jon M. Kleinberg
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
164views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Truthful mechanisms with implicit payment computation
It is widely believed that computing payments needed to induce truthful bidding is somehow harder than simply computing the allocation. We show that the opposite is true for singl...
Moshe Babaioff, Robert D. Kleinberg, Aleksandrs Sl...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
323views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 2 months 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...