We consider collusion in multi-unit auctions where the allocation and payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show how collusion can increase the utility of the collud...
We study a refined framwork of parameterized complexity theory where the parameter dependendence of fixed-parameter tractable algorithms is not arbitrary, but restricted by a fu...
While risk-sensitive (RS) approaches for designing plans of total productive maintenance are critical in manufacturing systems, there is little in the literature by way of theoret...
mation science has shown that human abstractors extract sentences for summaries based on the hierarchical structure of documents; however, the existing automatic summarization mode...
In a peer-to-peer inference system, each peer can reason locally but can also solicit some of its acquaintances, which are peers sharing part of its vocabulary. In this paper, we ...