Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
Past research on automatic laughter detection has focused mainly on audio-based detection. Here we present an audiovisual approach to distinguishing laughter from speech and we sh...
We consider the problem of coordinating a team of agents engaged in executing a set of inter-dependent, geographically dispersed tasks in an oversubscribed and uncertain environme...
Laura Barbulescu, Zachary B. Rubinstein, Stephen F...
This paper proposes an architecture for optimized resource allocation in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)-based cloud systems. Current IaaS systems are usually unaware of the ho...