Events

Hanwei Li (City University of Hong Kong) – Data-Driven Real-time Coupon Allocation in Online Platform

In ARISE: Validate, teams will go out to the field and confirm if there is an actual need for their solution and discover other important requirements of their target market, to better shape the development roadmap of their solution.

SUTD Design Innovation Forum – Design Alliance Summit

Data placement is one of the fundamental allocation problems in storage-capable distributed systems, such as web caches and peer-to-peer networks. Motivated by such applications, we consider the non-metric data placement problem and develop distributed algorithms for computing or approximating its optimal solutions. In this problem, the goal is to store copies of the data points among cache-capacitated servers to minimize overall data storage and clients’ access costs. We first show that the non-metric data placement problem is inapproximable up to a logarithmic factor. We then provide a game-theoretic decomposition of the objective function and show that natural Glauber dynamics will converge to an optimal global solution with polynomial mixing time for a certain range of noise parameters. Moreover, we provide another auction-based distributed algorithm, which allows us to approximate the optimal solution with a theoretical performance guarantee. The proposed algorithms not only provide good performance guarantees but also will enable the system to operate in a distributed manner, hence reducing the computational load and improving the robustness to failures.

HASS Talk: Meat is Murder: Southeast Asia’s Oldest Ethical Code

DH Asia Webinar Series: “Du Fu in Paratexts: An Analytical Reading of Literary Intertextuality in Chosŏn Korea” by Jamie Jungmin Yoo

ARISE Program – Validate

50.047 Mobile Robotics Course – Autonomous Race Car Challenge

Festival of Ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences: “Singapura before Raffles: early modern Asia in the Global Renaissance”

Tan Wee Siang & Yap Jian Beng (Singtel) – The Quantum Leap: Unleashing the Power of Cloud Networking