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WINE
2009
Springer
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Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman
WINE
2009
Springer
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The Impact of Social Ignorance on Weighted Congestion Games
We consider weighted linear congestion games, and investigate how social ignorance, namely lack of information about the presence of some players, affects the inefficiency of pure...
Dimitris Fotakis, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Alexis C. Kap...
XSYM
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Optimizing XML Compression
Abstract. The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) provides a powerful and flexible means of encoding and exchanging data. As it turns out, its main advantage as an encoding format (n...
Gregory Leighton, Denilson Barbosa
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Abstraction in model checking multi-agent systems
ion in model checking multi-agent systems Mika Cohen Department of Computing Imperial College London London, UK Mads Dam Access Linnaeus Center Royal Institute of Technology Stockh...
Mika Cohen, Mads Dam, Alessio Lomuscio, Francesco ...
BTW
2009
Springer
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Formalizing ETL Jobs for Incremental Loading of Data Warehouses
Abstract: Extract-transform-load (ETL) tools are primarily designed for data warehouse loading, i.e. to perform physical data integration. When the operational data sources happen ...
Thomas Jörg, Stefan Deßloch