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CLIMA
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Is Computational Complexity a Barrier to Manipulation?
When agents are acting together, they may need a simple mechanism to decide on joint actions. One possibility is to have the agents express their preferences in the form of a ballo...
Toby Walsh
ECAI
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An Empirical Study of the Manipulability of Single Transferable Voting
Abstract. Voting is a simple mechanism to combine together the preferences of multiple agents. Agents may try to manipulate the result of voting by mis-reporting their preferences....
Toby Walsh
ICRA
2010
IEEE
100views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Weighted barrier functions for computation of force distributions with friction cone constraints
— We present a novel Weighted Barrier Function (WBF) method of efficiently computing optimal grasping force distributions for multifingered hands. Second-order conic friction c...
Per Henrik Borgstrom, Maxim A. Batalin, Gaurav S. ...
VL
2003
IEEE
102views Visual Languages» more  VL 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Programming for communication: overcoming motivational barriers to computation for all
Computer science as a discipline is failing to reach a diverse audience. As a result, computational illiteracy threatens many groups of underserved students—women, minorities an...
Andrea Forte
DNA
2009
Springer
185views Bioinformatics» more  DNA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
NP-Completeness of the Direct Energy Barrier Problem without Pseudoknots
Knowledge of energy barriers between pairs of secondary structures for a given DNA or RNA molecule is useful, both in understanding RNA function in biological settings and in desig...
Ján Manuch, Chris Thachuk, Ladislav Stacho,...