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ATAL
2003
Springer
16 years 20 days ago
Coalition formation through motivation and trust
Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. Where agents are self-interested, or potentially unreliable...
Nathan Griffiths, Michael Luck
ECCV
2010
Springer
16 years 12 days ago
Detecting ground shadows in outdoor consumer photographs
Detecting shadows from images can significantly improve the performance of several vision tasks such as object detection and tracking. Recent approaches have mainly used illuminat...
INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
16 years 10 days ago
A Proxy Based Indirect Routing Scheme for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
—The majority of the existing ad hoc wireless network routing protocols has a tendency to use the shortest single path from the source to the destination. However, in constantly ...
Wook Choi, Sajal K. Das
STOC
2010
ACM
194views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
16 years 8 days ago
Multi-parameter mechanism design and sequential posted pricing
We study the classic mathematical economics problem of Bayesian optimal mechanism design where a principal aims to optimize expected revenue when allocating resources to self-inte...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason Hartline, David Malec and Bal...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
16 years 7 days ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan