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WOA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
A Contract Decommitment Protocol for Automated Negotiation in Time Variant Environments
Negotiation is a fundamental mechanism in distributed multi-agent systems. Since negotiation is a time-spending process, in many scenarios agents have to take into account the pas...
Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi, Matteo Somacher
UAI
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Regret Minimizing Equilibria and Mechanisms for Games with Strict Type Uncertainty
Mechanism design has found considerable application to the construction of agent-interaction protocols. In the standard setting, the type (e.g., utility function) of an agent is n...
Nathanael Hyafil, Craig Boutilier
IJCAI
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Incremental Utility Elicitation with the Minimax Regret Decision Criterion
Utility elicitation is a critical function of any automated decision aid, allowing decisions to be tailored to the preferences of a specific user. However, the size and complexit...
Tianhan Wang, Craig Boutilier
AAAI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
CUI Networks: A Graphical Representation for Conditional Utility Independence
We introduce CUI networks, a compact graphical representation of utility functions over multiple attributes. CUI networks model multiattribute utility functions using the well stu...
Yagil Engel, Michael P. Wellman
AGI
2008
13 years 5 months ago
The Basic AI Drives
One might imagine that AI systems with harmless goals will be harmless. This paper instead shows that intelligent systems will need to be carefully designed to prevent them from be...
Stephen M. Omohundro
DELTA
2004
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Static Scheduling of Monoprocessor Real-Time Systems composed of Hard and Soft Tasks
In this report we address the problem of static scheduling of realtime systems that include both hard and soft tasks. We consider systems in which both hard and soft tasks are per...
Luis Alejandro Cortés, Petru Eles, Zebo Pen...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Tractable negotiation in tree-structured domains
Multiagent resource allocation is a timely and exciting area of research at the interface of Computer Science and Economics. One of the main challenges in this area is the high co...
Yann Chevaleyre, Ulle Endriss, Nicolas Maudet
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
184views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Computing pure strategy nash equilibria in compact symmetric games
We analyze the complexity of computing pure strategy Nash equilibria (PSNE) in symmetric games with a fixed number of actions. We restrict ourselves to “compact” representati...
Christopher Thomas Ryan, Albert Xin Jiang, Kevin L...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
176views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
Coverage Control for Mobile Sensing Networks
— This paper describes decentralized control laws for the coordination of multiple vehicles performing spatially distributed tasks. The control laws are based on a gradient desce...
Jorge Cortés, Sonia Martínez, Timur ...
CCGRID
2002
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
User-Centric Performance Analysis of Market-Based Cluster Batch Schedulers
This paper presents a performance analysis of marketbased batch schedulers for clusters of workstations. In contrast to previous work, we use user-centric performance metrics as t...
Brent N. Chun, David E. Culler