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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...