Yishay Mansour - Publications

1986

Y.Mansour, S.Zaks
On the bit complexity of distributed computations in a ring with a leader.
In ``Proceedings of the 5-th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing", 151--160 (1986).
[Information and Computation 75(2), 162--177 (1987).]

1987

O.Goldreich, Y.Mansour, M.Sipser
Interactive proofs systems: Provers that never fail and random selection.
In 28-th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, Los Angeles, California, IEEE, 449--461 (1987).
[``Randomness and Computation" (Silvio Micali, ed.), 429--442. JAI press (1989).]

I.Chlamtac, Y.Mansour
Local cycle generation in multihop radio networks.
In Proceeding of IEEE conference on Military Communications, IEEE 40.2 (1987).

H. Attiya, Y. Mansour
Language complexity on the synchronous anonymous ring.
Theoretical Computer Science 53(3), 167-185 (1987).

1988

N.Lynch, Y.Mansour, A.Fekete
Data link layer: Two impossibility results.
In Proceedings of the 7-th} Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada ACM 149--170 (1988).
 

N.Linial, Y.Mansour, R.Rivest
Results on learnability and the vapnik-chervonenkis dimension.
In Proceedings of the 29-th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science,
White Plains, New York 120--129 (1988).
[Information and Computation 90(1), 33--49 (1991).]

Y.Mansour, B.Schieber, P.Tiwari
Lower bounds for integer greatest common divisor computations.
In 29-th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, White Plains, New York 54--63 (1988).
[Journal of the ACM 38:2, 453-471(1991).]

1989

Y.Mansour, B.Schieber, P.Tiwari
Lower bounds for computations with the floor operation.
In Proceeding of ICALP, 559-573 (1989).
SIAM Journal on Computing, 20(2), 315--327 (1991).

A.Herzberg, O.Goldreich, Y.Mansour
Source to destination communication in the presence of faults.
In Proceedings of the 8-th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing,
Edmonton, Canada 85--102 (1989).

Y.Mansour, B.Schieber
The intractability of bounded protocols for non-FIFO channels.
In Proceedings of the 8-th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Edmonton, Canada 59--72 (1989).
[Journal of the ACM, 39(4), 783--799 (1992).]

D.Bernstein, D.Goldin, M.Golumbic, H.Krawczyk, Y.Mansour, I.Nahshon, R.Pinter
Spill code minimization techniques for optimizing compilers.
In Proceeding of SIGPLAN 89, (1989).
 

B.Awerbuch, Y.Mansour, N.Shavit
Polynomial end-to-end communication.
In 30-th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science,
Research Triangle Park, NC 358--363 (1989).

Y.Mansour, B.Schieber, P.Tiwari
The complexity of approximating the square root.
In 30-th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science,
Research Triangle Park, NC 325--330 (1989).

N.Linial, Y.Mansour, N.Nisan
Constant depth circuits, fourier transform, and learnability.
In 30-th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science,
Research Triangle Park, NC 574--579 (1989).
[ACM 40(3), 607--620 (1993).]

S.Ben-david, G.Benedek, Y.Mansour
A parametrization scheme for classifying models of learnability.
In Proceeding of the 2-nd annual workshop on Computational Learning Theory,
Santa Cruz, CA 285--302 (1989).
[Information and Computation 120(1):11-21 (1995).]

Y.Mansour, N.Nisan, P.Tiwari
The computational complexity of universal hash functions.
In Proceedings of the 22-nd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, Baltimore, Maryland 235-243 (1989).
[Theoretical Computer Science 107(1), 121--133 (1993).]

O. Gerstel, Y.Mansour, S. Zaks
Bit complexity of order statistics on a distributed star network.
Information Processing Letters 30(3), 127-132 (1989)

Y. Mamsour, B. Schiber
Finding the edge connectivity of directed graphs.
Journal of Algorithms,10(1), 76-85 (1989)

M.Fuerer, O.Goldreich, Y. Mansour, M.Sipser, S.Zachos
On the completeness and soundness in interactive proof system.
In ``Randomness and Computation" (Silvio Micali, ed.), 429--442. JAI press (1989).

1990

I.Cidon, S.Kutten, Y.Mansour, D.Peleg
Greedy packet scheduling.
In Proceedings of the 4-th Annual Workshop on Distributed Algorithms, Bari, Italy (1990).
[SIAM Journal on Computing 24:1, 148-157 (1995).]

Y. Mansour, L Schulman
Sorting on a ring of processors.
Journal of Algorithms 11(4), 622-630 (1990)

1991

E.Kushilevitz, Y.Mansour
Learning decision trees using the fourier spectrum.
In Proceedings of the 23-rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, New Orleans, LA 455--464 (1991).
[SIAM Journal on Computing 22(6), 1331-1348 (1993).]

Y.Mansour, B.Patt-Shamir
Greedy packet scheduling on shortest paths.
In Proceedings of the 10-th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Montreal, Canada (1991).
[Journal of Algorithms, 14, 449-465 (1993).]

B.Awerbuch, I.Cidon, S.Kutten, Y.Mansour, D.Peleg
Broadcast with partial knowledge.
In Proceedings of the 10-th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Montreal, Canada (1991).
[Siam J. on Computing, 28(2), 511-524 (1998).]

T.Hancock, Y.Mansour
Learning monotone k-mu DNF fomulas on product distributions.
In Proceeding of the 2-nd annual workshop on Computational Learning Theory, Santa Cruz, CA 179--183 (1991).

S.Even, Y.Mansour
A construction of a pseudorandom cipher from single pseudorandom permutation.
In Aisa-CRYPT 1991, 210-224 (1991). [J. of Cryptology (1):151-161, 1997. ]

1992

Y.Mansour, J.Park, S.San, B.Schieber
Improved selection in totally monotone arrays.
In FST & TCS 11, India (1992).
[International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications 3(2), 115--132 (1993).]

Y.Mansour, J.Park, S.San, B.Schieber
B.Awerbuch, Y.Mansour
An efficient topology update protocol for dynamic networks
``$6^{th}$ Workshop on Distributed Algorithms" 185--202 (1992).

Y. Mansour
Randomized approxmation and interpolation of sparse polynomials.
In "ICALP" 261--272 (1992).
[SIAM Journal on Computing 24:2 (1995).]

Y.Mansour
An $O(n^{\log\log n})$ learning algorithm for DNF under the uniform distribution
In Proceeding of ``COLT" 53--61 (1992).
[Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences 50(3):543-550 (1995).]

N.H. Bshouty, Y. Mansour, B. Schiber. P. Tiwari
Fast exponentiation using the truncation operation
Computational Complexity 2, 244-255 (1992).

1993

B.Awerbuch, S.Kutten, Y.Mansour, B.Patt-Shamir, G.Varghese
Time optimal self-stabilizing synchronization.
In ``Proceedings of the 25^{th} Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing", San Diego, CA 652--661 (1993).

E.Kushilevitz, Y.Mansour, M.Rabin, D.Zuckerman
Lower bounds for randomized mutual exclusion.
In ``Proceedings of the $25^{th}$ Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing", San Diego, CA 154--163 (1993).
[Siam J. on Computing, 27(6):1550-1563 (1998).]

D. Coppersmith, H. Krawzcyk, Y.Mansour
The shrinking generator.
In CRYPTO 22-39 (1993).

J.A. Garay, I.S. Gopal, S.Kutten, Y.Mansour, M.Yung
Efficient on--line call control mechanism.
In ``The 2nd Israel Symposium on Theory and Computing Systems" 285--293 (1993).
[Journal of Algorithms , 23:180-194, 1997]

E.Kushilevitz, Y.Mansour
An $\Omega(d\log n)$ lower bound for broadcast in radio networks.
In ``Proceedings of the $12^{th}$ Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing", Ithaca, NY 65--73 (1993).
[Siam J. on Computing, 27(3):702-712 (1998).]

A.Fekete, N.Lynch, Y.Mansour, J.Spinelli
The impossibility of implementing reliable communication in face of crashes.
Journal of the ACM 40:5, 1087-1107 (1993).
 

1994

Y.Afek, H.Attiya, A.Fekete, M.Fischer, N.Lynch, Y.Mansour, D.Wang, L.Zuck.
Reliable communication over unreliable channels.
Journal of the ACM 41:6, 1267-1297 (1994).

Y. Mansour, N. Nisan, U. Vishkin
Trade-offs between communication throughput and parallel time.
In ``The 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing" 372--381 (1994).
[J. of Complexity 15(1):148-166 (1999).]

A. Blum, M. Furst, J. Jackson, M. Kearns, Y. Mansour, S. Rudich
Weakly learning DNF and characterizing statistical query learning using Fourier analysis.
In ``The 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing" 253--262 (1994).

H. Karloff, Y. Mansour
On construction of $k$-wise independent random variables.
In ``The 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing" 564--573 (1994).
[Combinatorica, 17(1) 91-107, 1997]

M. Kearns, Y. Mansour, D. Ron, R. Rubinfel, R.E. Schapire, L. Sellie
On the learnability of discrete distributions.
In ``The 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing" 273--282 (1994).

Y. Mansour.
Learning Boolean Functions via the Fourier Transform.
In ``Theoretical Advances in Neural Computation and Learning",
(V.P. Roychodhury and K-Y. Siu and A. Orlitsky, ed.), 391--424 (1994).
 

1995

I.Gaber and Y.Mansour.
Broadcast in radio networks.
In ``The 6th ACM-Siam Symposium on Discrete Algorithms" 577--585 (1995).
[Journal of Algorithms, 46(1): 1-20, (2003)]

Shai Ben-David, Eyal Kushilevitz, and Yishay Mansour.
Online learning versus offline learning.
In Euro-Colt (1995).
[Machine Learning, 29:45-63, 1997]

Y.Mansour and Boaz Patt-Shamir.
Many-to-one packet routing on grids.
In ``The 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing", 1995.

Amotz Bar-Noy, Ran Canetti, Shay Kutten, Y.Mansour, and Baruch Schieber.
Bandwidth allocation with preemption.
In ``The 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing", 1995.
[Siam J. on Computing 28(5):1806-1828 (1999).]

Michael Kearns, Yishay Mansour, AndrewY. Ng, and Dana Ron.
An experimental and theoretical comparison of model selection methods.
In ``Proceeding of the $8^{th}$ annual workshop on Computational Learning Theory" 21--30 (1995).
[Special issue of Machine Learning Journal, 7:7-50, 1997]

Meir Feder, Yoav Freund, and Yishay Mansour.
Optimal on-line prediction of conditional distributions.
In ``International Symposium on Information Theory" (1995).

Amos Fiat, Y.Mansour, Adi Ros\'en, and Orli Waarts.
Competitive access time via dynamic storage rearrangement.
In ``$36^{th}$ Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science", 392--401 (1995).

NaderH. Bshouty and Yishay Mansour.
Simple learning algorithms for decision trees and multivariate polynomials.
In ``$36^{th}$ Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science", 304--311 (1995).
[Siam J. on Computing, 31(6), 1909-1925 (2003).]

Yoav Freund, Michael Kearns, Yishay Mansour, Dana Ron, Ronitt Rubinfeld and Robert E. Schapire.
Efficient Algorithms for Learning to Play Repeated Games Against Computationally Bounded Adversaries.
In ``$36^{th}$ Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science", 332--341 (1995).

Baruch Awerbuch, Shay Kutten, Yishay Mansour, and David Peleg.
Optimal broadcast with partial knowledge.
In ``Proceedings of the $9^{th}$ Annual Workshop on Distributed Algorithms", 116-130(1995).
[Siam J. on Computing, 28(2), 511-524 (1998).]

Yishay Mansour and Sigal Sahar.
Implementation issues in the fourier transform algorithm.
In ``Nerual Information Processing Systems'', 260-265,(1995).
[Machine Learning Journal 40(1):5-33 (2000).]

E. Kushilevits, Y. Mansour, M. Rabin
On lotteries with unique winners.
Siam J. on Discrete Math 8(1):93-98 (1995)

N. Alon, Y. Mansour
epsilon discrepancy sets and their applications for interpolation and of sparse polynomials.
Information Processing Letters, 54:337-342 (1995).

1996

Yehuda Afek, Menashe Cohen, Eyal Hallmann, and Yishay Mansour.
Dynamic bandwidth allocation.
In InfoComm, 880-887,(1996).

Yehuda Afek, Yishay Mansour, and Zvi Ostfeld.
On the convergence of rate based flow control.
In STOC, 89-108,1996.
[J. of Algorithms 30(1):106-143(1999)]

Yehuda Afek, Yishay Mansour, and Zvi Ostfeld.
Phantom: A simple and effective flow control scheme.
In SIGCOMM, 1996.
[Computer networks, 32(2000) 277-305, (2000).]

Michael Kearns and Yishay Mansour.
On the boosting ability of top-down decision tree learning algorithms.
In STOC, 459-468,1996
[JCSS, 58(1):109-128 (1999)]

Tom Dietterich, Michael Kearns and Yishay Mansour
Applying the Weak Learning Framework to understand and improve C4.5
In Proc. of Machine Learning, 1996

Eyal Kushilevitz and Yishay Mansour.
Randomness in private computations.
In PODC, 181-190,1996.
[Siam J. on Discrete Math, 10(4): 647-661 (1997).]

Yishay Mansour and Michal Parnas.
On learning conjunctions with malicious noise.
In Proceedings of ISTCS, 1996.
[Information Processing Letters 68:189-196 (1998).]

1997

Yoav Freund and Yishay Mansour.
Learning under persistent drift.
In Proceedings of EuroColt, 109-118,1997.
 

Michael Kearns, Yishay Mansour, and AndrewY. Ng.
An information theoretic analysis of hard and soft clustering.
In Proceedings of Uncertainty in AI, 1997
[``Learning in Graphical Models'' (Michael Jordon, ed.), 495-520 (1999).]

Yishay Mansour.
Pessimistic decision tree pruning.
In Proceedings of Machine Learning, 195-201, 1997.

Yishay Mansour and Mariano Schain.
Learning with maximum-entropy distributions.
In Colt, 201-210,1997.
[Machine Learning 45(2):123-145 (2001)]

Y. Afek, B. Awerbuch,E. Gafni, Y. Mansour, A. Rosen, N. Shavit
Slide - the key to polynomial end-to-end communication.
J. of Algorithms 22(1): 158-186 (1997)

Nader H. Bshouty, Yishay Mansour, Baruch Schieber, Prasoon Tiwari:
A Tight Bound for Approximating the Square Root.
Inf. Process. Lett. 63(4): 211-213 (1997)

1998

Eyal Kushilevitz and Yishay Mansour
Computation in Noisy Radio Networks
In ACM-SIAM symposium on discrete algorithms (SODA), 236-243, 1998
[Siam J. on Discrete Math 19(1), 96-108, 2005]

M. Kearns, Y. Mansour
Exact Inference of Hidden Structure from Sample Data in Noisy-OR Networks
In ``Proceeding of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence", 304-310 (1998).

M. Kearns, Y. Mansour
A Fast, Bottom-Up Decision Tree Pruning Algorithm with Near-Optimal Generalization
In `` Proceeding of the International Conference on Machine Learning", 269-277 (1998).

Amotz Bar-Noy, Yishay Mansour and Baruch Schieber
Competitive Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation
In Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing 1998

Yishay Mansour and Boaz Patt-Shamir
Jitter Control in QoS Networks
In 39th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science 1998
[IEEE/ACM Trans. On Networking 4(9):492-502 (2001)

Yishay Mansour and David Peleg
An Approximation Algorithm for Minimum-Cost Network Design
DIMACS Workshop on Robust Communication Networks, 1998

1999

M. Kearns and Y. Mansour and A. Ng
A Sparse Sampling Algorithm for Near-Optimal Planning in Large Markov Decision
IJCAI, 1999
[Machine Learning 49(2-3): 193-208 (2002)]

Y. Mansour and S. Singh
On the Complexity of Policy Iteration
UAI, 1999

Y. Mansour
Reinforcement Learning and Mistake Bounded Algorithms
COLT, 1999

Y. Freund and Y. Mansour
Estimating a mixture of two product distributions
COLT, 1999

Y. Mansour and D. MaAllester
Boosting with Multi-Way Branching in Decision Trees
NIPS 1999.

R. Sutton and D. McAllester and S. Singh and Y. Mansour
Policy Gradient Methods for Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation
NIPS 1999.

M. Kearns, Y. Mansour and A. Ng
Approximate Planning in Large POMDPs via Reusable Trajectories
NIPS, 1999

D. Malkhi, Y. Mansour and M. K. Reiter,
On Diffusing Updates in a Byzantine Environment,
Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 134-143, 1999
[Theoretical Computer Science, 1-3(299):289-306 (2003).]

Y. Afek, Y. Mansour, Z. Ostfeld,
Virtual-Credit: Efficient End-to-End Credit Based Flow Control,
Special issue on Networks in Distributed Computing
published by the American Mathematical Society in the DIMACS
Series. 45:1-21 (1999).

2000

William Aiello, Yishay Mansour, S. Rajagpopalan and Adi Rosen
Competitive queue policies for diffrentiated services
INFOCOM 2000.
[J. Algorithms 55(2): 113-141 (2005)]

Yishay Mansour, Boaz Patt-Shamir and Ofer Lapid
Optimal Smoothing Schedules for Real-time Streams
PODC 2000
[To appear in Distribute Computing]

Yishay Mansour and David McAllester
Boosting using Branching Programs
COLT 2000
[JCSS 64(1): 103-112 (2002). (Special issue for COLT 2000)]

Yishay Mansour and David McAllester
Generalization Bounds for Decision Trees
COLT 2000

Singh S, Kearns M, Mansour Y.
Nash Convergence of Gradient Dynamics in General-Sum Games.
In UAI 2000.

Kearns M, Mansour Y, Singh S.
Fast Planning in Stochastic Games.
In UAI 2000.

2001

Alexander Kesselman and Yishay Mansour
Loss bounded analysis for differentiated services
In (SODA) 2001, 591-600
[Journal of Algorithms, 46(1): 79-95, (2003)]
 

Yoav Freund Yishay Mansour and Robert E. Schapire,
Why averaging classifiers can protect against overfitting
In Proceeding of the Eighth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and
Statistics, 2001
[To appear in The Annals of Statistics]

Alexander Kesselman and Yishay Mansour
QoS-Competitive Video Buffering,
SIROCCO, 2001
[Also in Computing and Informatics]

Ellen L. Hahne, Alexander Kesselman and Yishay Mansour
Competitive Buffer Management for Shared-Memory Switches
SPAA, 2001

Alexander Kesselman, Zvi Lotker, Yishay Mansour, Boaz Patt-Shamir, Baruch Schieber, Maxim Sviridenko
Buffer Overflow Management in QoS Switches,
STOC, 2001
[SIAM J. Comput. 33(3): 563-583 (2004)]  


Eyal Even-Dar Yishay Mansour,
Learning Rates for Q-Learning
The Fourteenth Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, 589-604 (2001)
[Journal of Machine Learning Research 5 (Dec):1-25, 2003]

Shai Ben-David, Phil Long and Yishay Mansour,
Agnostic Boosting
The Fourteenth Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory 2001

E. Even-Dar and Y. Mansour.
Convergence of Optimistic and Incremental Q-Learning
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14 (NIPS), 2001, pp. 1499-1506.

2002

Alexander Kesselman and Yishay Mansour,
Harmonic Buffer Management Policy for Shared Memory Switches,
InfoCom, 2002.
[Theor. Comput. Sci. 324(2-3): 161-182 (2004)]

Eyal Even-Dar, Shie Mannor, and Yishay Mansour,
PAC Bounds for Multi-Armed Bandit and Markov Decision Processes,
The Fifthteenth Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory 2002

Michael Kearns and Yishay Mansour,
Efficient Nash Computation in Large Population Games with Bounded Influence,
18th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2002

Anat Bremler-Barr, Idit Cohen, Haim Kaplan , and Yishay Mansour.
Predicting and bypassing end-to-end Internet service degradations.
Internet Meassurement Workshop (IMW) 2002
[IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 21(6):961-978 (2003)]

Noga Alon, Oded Goldreich, and Yishay Mansour
Almost k-wise independence versus k-wise independence
ECCC TR02-048
[Inf. Process. Lett. 88(3): 107-110 (2003)]

2003

Nir Andelman, Yishay Mansour , and An Zhu .
Competitive Queueing Policies for QoS Switches.
14th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), (Jan. 2003).

Alexander Kesselman,Yishay Mansour and Rob van Stee,
"Improved Competitive Guarantees for QoS Buffering,"
In ESA 2003.
[Special Issue of Algorithmica on Network Design. Editor: Lisa Zhang: Algorithmica 43(1-2): 63-80 (2005)]

Alexander Kesselman, Zvi Lotker, Yishay Mansour and Boaz Patt-Shamir,
"Buffer Overflows of Merging Streams,"
In ESA 2003

Alexander Kesselman and Yishay Mansour,
"Adaptive AIMD Congestion Control,"
In PODC 2003.
[Special Issue of Algorithmica on Network Design. Editor: Lisa Zhang Algorithmica 43(1-2): 97-111 (2005)]

Baruch Awerbuch, Yishay Mansour
Adapting to a Reliable Network Path
In PODC 2003.

Eyal Even-Dar, Alexander Kesselman and Yishay Mansour,
"Convergence Time to Nash Equilibria,"
In ICALP 2003. [Also: ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Vol. 3, No. 3, August 2007]

Yossi Azar, Avrim Blum, and Yishay Mansour
Combining Online Algorithms for Rejection and Acceptance
In SPAA 2003
[Theory of Computating, 1(2005), pp. 105-117]

Amir Maor, Yishay Mansour
'AdaVegas: Adaptive Control for TCP Vegas'
Globecom 2003

Eyal Even-Dar and Yishay Mansour 
Approximate Equivalence of Markov Decision Processes
COLT 2003

Eyal Even-Dar Shie Mannor and Yishay Mansour 
Action Elimination and Stopping Conditions for Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2003
[Journal of Machine Learning Research 7: 1079-1105 (2006)]

Nir Andelman and Yishay Mansour.
Competitive Management of Non-Preemptive Queues with Multiple Values.
17th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) 2003.

2004

Sham Kakade, Michael Kearns, Yishay Mansour, and Luis Ortiz.
Competitive Algorithms for VWAP and Limit Order Trading.
ACM Electronic Commerce Conference 2004.

Nir Andelman and Yishay Mansour
Randomized Queue Management for DiffServ
OLAP 2004

Nir Andelman and Yishay Mansour
Auctions with Budget Constraints
SWAT 2004

David P. Bunde and Yishay Mansour
Improved Combination of Online Algorithms for Acceptance and Rejection
SPAA 2004
[Theory of Computating, 1(2005), pp. 105-117]

Evgeny Drukh and Yishay Mansour
Concentration Bounds for Unigrams Language Model
COLT 2004
  [JMLR 6(Aug):1231--1264, 2005]

Amotz Bar-Noy and Yishay Mansour
Competitive On-Line Paging Strategies for Mobile Users Under Delay Constraints
 PODC 2004

E. Even-Dar, Sham Kakade and Y. Mansour.
Experts in a Markov Decision Process.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17 (NIPS), 2004.
 

2005

E. Even-Dar and Y. Mansour.
Fast Convergence of Selfish Rerouting.
Sixteenth ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2005.

Alexander Kesselman and Yishay Mansour,
Optimizing TCP Retransmission Timeout
ICN'2005

Haim Kaplan, Eyal Kushilevtiz and Yishay Mansour
Learning with Attribute Costs
STOC 2005

Eyal Even-Dar, Sham Kakade and Yishay Mansour.
Reinforcement Learning in POMDPs without Resets.
Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2005.

Nicoḷ Cesa-Bianchi, Yishay Mansour and  Gilles Stoltz
Improved Second-Order Bounds for Prediction with Expert Advice
COLT 2005
[Machine Learning , 66(2/3):321-352, 2007.]

Avrim Blum and Yishay Mansour
From External to Internal Regret
COLT 2005

Eyal Even-Dar and Sham M. Kakade and Yishay Mansour
Planning in POMDPS using Multiplicity Automata
UAI 2005

Maria-Florina balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason Hartline and Yishay Mansour
Mechanism Design via Machine Learning
FOCS, 2005

 

A. Kalai and A. Klivans and Y. Mansour and R. Servedio.
Agnostically Learning Halfspaces.
FOCS, 2005
[Accepted to special issue of Siam J. on Computing.]


Shai Fine, Arie Freund, Itai Jaeger, Yishay Mansour, Yehuda Naveh, and Ave Ziv,
Harnessing machine learning to improve the success rate of stimuli generation.
Proc. High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT) 2005.
[Journal version: IEEE Transactions on Computers 55(11): 1344-1355 (2006)]

2006


S. Albers, S. Eilts, E. Even-Dar, Y. Mansour and L. Roditty.
On Nash Equilibria for a Network Creation Game.
Seventeenth ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2006

Tzur Sayag, Shai Fine and Yishay Mansour
Combining Multiple Heuristics
STACS 2006

Peter DeMarzo and Ilan Kremer and Yishay Mansour
Online Trading Algorithms and Robust Option Pricing 
STOC 2006

Nir Andelman, Yishay Mansour
A Sufficient Condition for Truthfulness with Single Parameter Agents
ACM EC 2006

Eyal Even-Dar, Sham Kakade, Michael Kearns, and Yishay Mansour
(In)Stability Properties of Limit Order Dynamics 
ACM EC 2006

Shai Fine and YishayMansour
Active Sampling for Multiple Output Identification
COLT 2006

2007

Eyal Even-Dar, Sham M. Kakade, Yishay Mansour: 
The Value of Observation for Monitoring Dynamic Systems. 
IJCAI 2007: 2474-2479

Nir Andelman, Michal Feldman and Yishay Mansour 
Strong Price of Anarchy
Seventeenth ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2007

Amir Epstein, Michal Feldman and Yishay Mansour
Strong Equilibrium in Cost-Sharing Connection Game
In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'07)

Sergiu Hart and Yishay Mansour
The Communication Complexity of Uncoupled Nash Equilibrium Procedures
STOC 2007

Eyal Even-Dar, Michael Kearns, Yishay Mansour and Jenn Wortman
Regret to the Best vs. Regret to the average.
COLT 2007

Baruch Awerbuch, Shay Kutten, Yishay Mansour, Boaz Patt-Shamir, and George Varghese
A Time-Optimal Self-Stabilizing Synchronizer Using a Phase Clock
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing  (to appear)