FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Combinatorial allocation problems require allocating items to players in a way that maximizes the total utility. Two such problems received attention recently, and were addressed ...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract— TCP/IP can be interpreted as a distributed primaldual algorithm to maximize aggregate utility over source rates. It has recently been shown that an equilibrium of TCP/I...
HPDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
In traditional call admission control (CAC) schemes, mobile users are always the passive roles during the admission procedures and the base station determines whether to admit o...
ICAC
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
SAGT
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2009
Springer
Congestion games—in which players strategically choose from a set of “resources” and derive utilities that depend on the congestion on each resource— are important in a wid...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2009
Springer
This paper analyzes bilateral multi-issue negotiation between selfinterested agents. Specifically, we consider the case where issues are divisible, there are time constraints in ...
ALDT
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Several schemes have been proposed for compactly representing multiattribute utility functions, yet none seems to achieve the level of success achieved by Bayesian and Ma...
STOC
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
We consider the problem of maximizing welfare when allocating m items to n players with subadditive utility functions. Our main result is a way of rounding any fractional solution...