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DC
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A knowledge-based analysis of global function computation
Consider a distributed system N in which each agent has an input value and each communication link has a weight. Given a global function, that is, a function f whose value depends...
Joseph Y. Halpern, Sabina Petride
FOSSACS
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Electoral Systems in Ambient Calculi
This paper compares the expressiveness of ambient calculi against different dialects of the pi-calculus. Cardelli and Gordon encoded the asynchronous pi-calculus into their calcul...
Iain Phillips, Maria Grazia Vigliotti
AAAI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Cloning in Elections
We consider the problem of manipulating elections via cloning candidates. In our model, a manipulator can replace each candidate c by one or more clones, i.e., new candidates that...
Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski, Arkadii M. Slinko
IWINAC
2007
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
Tackling the Error Correcting Code Problem Via the Cooperation of Local-Search-Based Agents
We consider the problem of designing error correcting codes (ECC), a hard combinatorial optimization problem of relevance in the field of telecommunications. This problem is firs...
Jhon Edgar Amaya, Carlos Cotta, Antonio J. Fern&aa...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Copeland voting: ties matter
We study the complexity of manipulation for a family of election systems derived from Copeland voting via introducing a parameter that describes how ties in head-to-head contests...
Piotr Faliszewski, Edith Hemaspaandra, Henning Sch...