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ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Rumours and reputation: evaluating multi-dimensional trust within a decentralised reputation system
In this paper we develop a novel probabilistic model of computational trust that explicitly deals with correlated multi-dimensional contracts. Our starting point is to consider an...
Steven Reece, Alex Rogers, Stephen Roberts, Nichol...
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On opportunistic techniques for solving decentralized Markov decision processes with temporal constraints
Decentralized Markov Decision Processes (DEC-MDPs) are a popular model of agent-coordination problems in domains with uncertainty and time constraints but very difficult to solve...
Janusz Marecki, Milind Tambe
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Semantics of Ranking Queries for Probabilistic Data and Expected Ranks
Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Graham Cormode, Feifei Li, Ke Yi
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months 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
MANSCI
2007
90views more  MANSCI 2007»
13 years 4 months ago
Selecting a Selection Procedure
Selection procedures are used in a variety of applications to select the best of a finite set of alternatives. ‘Best’ is defined with respect to the largest mean, but the me...
Jürgen Branke, Stephen E. Chick, Christian Sc...