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31 Oct 2011: simultaneously. The parametersof the contracts become finalized once all agents have madetheir bids. ... post ones, eitherfor C3, or for C1 and C2, but not for all.

15 Sep 2011: This distribution is known to all agents, butthe value of is known to agent alone. ... this denotes all the preferences parameters apart from. Theproblem is to maximize expected social welfare.

15 Sep 2011: terms of maintaining guaranteedservice to all customers) as two units of service A. ... This is the charging method which is adopted by an all-you-can-eat restaurant.

15 Sep 2011: Place the next item so as to minimize P1i<B n(g)2.For all the discrete distributions we have tested, SS appears to produce sublinearexpected waste whenever the optimal expected ... assume that all discrete distributions have beenscaled up by an

15 Sep 2011: If there is a function V : Z [1, ),constants b < , β > 0, and a finite subset C Z such that for all x Z,. ... that (a) sS µ(s) = 1 and (b) for all states s′ S,µ(s′) =. sS µ(s)ps(s. ′). If we let sn denote the state after n steps, then

15 Sep 2011: there exists a bin-packing algorithm whose use guarantees the expected wasted space is less than B for all t. ... Thus the expected wasted space is bounded by some B for all t.

15 Sep 2011: All the services are deter- ministic, with a duration of 1 time unit. ... It can now be shown that the whole expression is maximized over the range -a < b - a by b = 0 for all 0 < a < 1/2.

15 Sep 2011: We define a system to be stabilizable if, for any arrivalprocess in L{), a policy exists under which E[xt(t)] < B < <x> for all times t.A system is/-stabilizable ... When a bin is filled with all the type a items itcan store, it is immediately filled

15 Sep 2011: By m o v i n g a j o b all the w a y a r o u n d the cycle, f r o m n o d ... All these decisions are to be m a d e dynamically as a function of the n u m b e r o f jobs.

15 Sep 2011: a) [Initial Bound Hypothesis]. E[bφ(X1). ]<. (b) [Bounded Variation Hypothesis]. For all N 1, |φ(XN1)φ(XN)|. ... tation. The state space S is the set of all length-(B 1) vectors of non-negativeintegers x̄= 〈x1,x2,.