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FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
AdWords and Generalized On-line Matching
How does a search engine company decide what ads to display with each query so as to maximize its revenue? This turns out to be a generalization of the online bipartite matching p...
Aranyak Mehta, Amin Saberi, Umesh V. Vazirani, Vij...
IFIPTCS
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Deterministic Computations in Time-Varying Graphs: Broadcasting under Unstructured Mobility
Most highly dynamic infrastructure-less networks have in common that the assumption of connectivity does not necessarily hold at a given instant. Still, communication routes can be...
Arnaud Casteigts, Paola Flocchini, Bernard Mans, N...
FOCS
1991
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A parallel algorithmic version of the Local Lemma
The Lov´asz Local Lemma is a tool that enables one to show that certain events hold with positive, though very small probability. It often yields existence proofs of results with...
Noga Alon
AGP
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Declarative Programming: What, When, Where, Why, Who, How?
This chapter tackles the relation between declarative languages and multi-agent systems by following the dictates of the five Ws (and one H) that characterize investigations. The ...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Viviana Mascard...
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
14 years 1 months ago
What is worth learning from parallel workloads?: a user and session based analysis
Learning useful and predictable features from past workloads and exploiting them well is a major source of improvement in many operating system problems. We review known parallel ...
Julia Zilber, Ofer Amit, David Talby