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NIPS
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Sampling Methods for Unsupervised Learning
We present an algorithm to overcome the local maxima problem in estimating the parameters of mixture models. It combines existing approaches from both EM and a robust fitting algo...
Robert Fergus, Andrew Zisserman, Pietro Perona
AAAI
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Preventing Strategic Manipulation in Iterative Auctions: Proxy Agents and Price-Adjustment
Iterative auctions have many computational advantages over sealed-bid auctions, but can present new possibilities for strategic manipulation. We propose a two-stage technique to m...
David C. Parkes, Lyle H. Ungar
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Representing Small Group Evolution
: Understanding the dynamics of network evolution rests in part on the representation chosen to characterize the evolutionary process. We offer a simple, three-parameter representa...
Whitman Richards, Nicholas C. Wormald
GG
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Open Petri Nets: Non-deterministic Processes and Compositionality
We introduce ranked open nets, a reactive extension of Petri nets which generalises a basic open net model introduced in a previous work by allowing for a refined notion of interf...
Paolo Baldan, Andrea Corradini, Hartmut Ehrig, Bar...
CONCUR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Trust in Anonymity Networks
Anonymity is a security property of paramount importance, as we move steadily towards a wired, online community. Its import touches upon subjects as different as eGovernance, eBusi...
Vladimiro Sassone, Sardaouna Hamadou, Mu Yang