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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Self-interested database managers playing the view maintenance game
A database view is a dynamic virtual table composed of the result set of a query, often executed over different underlying databases. The view maintenance problem concerns how a v...
Hala Mostafa, Victor R. Lesser, Gerome Miklau
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Anonymity-proof Shapley value: extending shapley value for coalitional games in open environments
Coalition formation is an important capability for automated negotiation among self-interested agents. In order for coalitions to be stable, a key question that must be answered i...
Naoki Ohta, Vincent Conitzer, Yasufumi Satoh, Atsu...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
An anytime approximation method for the inverse Shapley value problem
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Multi agent based simulation of transport chains
An agent-based tool for micro-level simulation of transport chains (TAPAS) is described. It is more powerful than traditional approaches as it is able to capture the interactions ...
Paul Davidsson, Johan Holmgren, Jan A. Persson, Li...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Goals in agent systems: a unifying framework
In the literature on agent systems, the proactive behavior of agents is often modeled in terms of goals that the agents pursue. We review a number of commonly-used existing goal t...
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, Michael Win...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Aligning social welfare and agent preferences to alleviate traffic congestion
Multiagent coordination algorithms provide unique insights into the challenging problem of alleviating traffic congestion. What is particularly interesting in this class of proble...
Kagan Tumer, Zachary T. Welch, Adrian K. Agogino
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Zero-intelligence agents in prediction markets
We construct a novel agent-based model of prediction markets in which putative human qualities like learning, reasoning, and profit-seeking are absent. We show that the prices whi...
Abraham Othman
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Modelling coalitions: ATL + argumentation
In the last few years, argumentation frameworks have been successfully applied to multi agent systems. Recently, argumentation has been used to provide a framework for reasoning a...
Nils Bulling, Jürgen Dix, Carlos Iván ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Computationally-efficient winner determination for mixed multi-unit combinatorial auctions
Mixed Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions offer a high potential to be employed for the automated assembly of supply chains of agents offering goods and services. Their winner deter...
Andrea Giovannucci, Meritxell Vinyals, Juan A. Rod...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating the performance of DCOP algorithms in a real world, dynamic problem
Complete algorithms have been proposed to solve problems modelled as distributed constraint optimization (DCOP). However, there are only few attempts to address real world scenari...
Robert Junges, Ana L. C. Bazzan