ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Managers of systems of shared resources typically have many separate goals. Examples are efficient utilization of the resources among its users and ensuring no user’s satisfacti...
WECWIS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
Agent negotiation over multiple issues is often seen as the process of searching for a solution in a complex and large space. Depending on the negotiation mechanism such search sp...
CAAN
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
We study the bandwidth allocation problem Maximize U(x), subject to Ax ≤ c; x ≥ 0 where U is a utility function, x is a bandwidth allocation vector, and Ax ≤ c represent the...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
The goal of autonomic computing is to create computing systems capable of managing themselves to a far greater extent than they do today. This paper presents Unity, a decentralize...
AMAI
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
The majority of the work in the area of Markov decision processes has focused on expected values of rewards in the objective function and expected costs in the constraints. Althou...
MSWIM
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2004
ACM
In this paper we discuss utility functions models to study Radio Resource Management. Our goal is to identify the characteristics of the wireless systems which make such theoretic...
FSTTCS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. We consider exchange economies where the traders’ preferences are expressed in terms of the extensively used constant elasticity of substitution (CES) utility functions...
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
This paper presents an agent strategy for complex bilateral negotiations over many issues with inter-dependent valuations. We use ideas inspired by graph theory and probabilistic ...
CIG
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
AbstractGroup utility functions are an extension of the common team utility function for providing multiple agents with a common reinforcement learning signal for learning cooperat...
CEC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Abstract- The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from...