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TWC
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Efficient Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks: Centralized Dynamic Spectrum Leasing (C-DSL)
In this paper, we propose the concept of centralized dynamic spectrum leasing (C-DSL), in which multiple primary users belonging to the same primary system participate in the spect...
K. Hakim, Sudharman K. Jayaweera, Georges El-Howay...
TOC
2010
127views Management» more  TOC 2010»
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The Submodular Welfare Problem with Demand Queries
: We consider the Submodular Welfare Problem where we have m items and n players with given utility functions wi : 2[m] R+. The utility functions are assumed to be monotone and su...
Uriel Feige, Jan Vondrák
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
An expressive mechanism for auctions on the web
Auctions are widely used on the Web. Applications range from internet advertising to platforms such as eBay. In most of these applications the auctions in use are single/multi-ite...
Paul Dütting, Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Towards Autonomic Service Provisioning Systems
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
Michele Mazzucco
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Bayesian network-based behavior control for skilligent robots
A Skilligent robot must be able to learn skills autonomously to accomplish a task. "Skilligence" is the capacity of the robot to control behaviors reasonably, based on th...
Sang Hyoung Lee, Il Hong Suh
DLOG
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Combination of Boolean Games with Description Logics for Automated Multi-Attribute Negotiation
Abstract. Multi-attribute negotiation has been extensively studied from a gametheoretic viewpoint. In negotiation settings, utility functions are used to express agent preferences....
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Azzurra Ragone
CORR
2010
Springer
105views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
The Networked Common Goods Game
Abstract. We introduce a new class of games called the networked common goods game (NCGG), which generalizes the well-known common goods game [12]. We focus on a fairly general sub...
Jinsong Tan
JAIR
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Collective Intelligence, Data Routing and Braess' Paradox
We consider the problem of designing the the utility functions of the utility-maximizing agents in a multi-agent system (MAS) so that they work synergistically to maximize a globa...
David Wolpert, Kagan Tumer
CI
2004
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Utility Functions for Ceteris Paribus Preferences
Although ceteris paribus preference statements concisely represent one natural class of preferences over outcomes or goals, many applications of such preferences require numeric u...
Michael McGeachie, Jon Doyle
JSAC
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Content-Aware Resource Allocation and Packet Scheduling for Video Transmission over Wireless Networks
— A cross-layer packet scheduling scheme that streams pre-encoded video over wireless downlink packet access networks to multiple users is presented. The scheme can be used with ...
Peshala V. Pahalawatta, Randall Berry, Thrasyvoulo...