SIGECOM
2008
ACM
14 years 13 days ago
2008
ACM
We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
ACL
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
A Bloom filter (BF) is a randomised data structure for set membership queries. Its space requirements are significantly below lossless information-theoretic lower bounds but it ...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
We use a Bayesian approach to optimally solve problems in noisy binary search. We deal with two variants: • Each comparison is erroneous with independent probability 1 − p. ...