SIAMCOMP
2012
12 years 1 months ago
2012
We consider online algorithms for the generalized caching problem. Here we are given a cache of size k and pages with arbitrary sizes and fetching costs. Given a request sequence ...
PODS
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
2012
ACM
We show that randomization can lead to significant improvements for a few fundamental problems in distributed tracking. Our basis is the count-tracking problem, where there are k...
MOBICOM
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
2012
ACM
While a natural fit for modeling and understanding mobile networks, time-varying graphs remain poorly understood. Indeed, many of the usual concepts of static graphs have no obvi...
STACS
2012
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
2012
Springer
Assignment between two parties in a two-sided matching market has been one of the central questions studied in economics, due to its extensive applications, focusing on different...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
We consider a setting in which a principal seeks to induce an adaptive agent to select a target action by providing incentives on one or more actions. The agent maintains a belief...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
2011
ACM
We study the problem of computing approximate quantiles in large-scale sensor networks communication-efficiently, a problem previously studied by Greenwald and Khana [12] and Shri...
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
2011
ACM
Recent results in complexity theory suggest that various economic theories require agents to solve computationally intractable problems. However, such results assume the agents ar...
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
2011
ACM
The Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction is the primary method by which sponsered search advertisements are sold. We study the performance of this auction in the Bayesian settin...
PODS
2011
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
2011
ACM
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
PODC
2011
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
2011
ACM
A maximal independent set on a graph is an inclusion-maximal set of mutually non-adjacent nodes. This basic symmetry breaking structure is vital for many distributed algorithms, w...