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SAC
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Decentralized coordination strategies for the vehicle routing problem
Modern software control systems must cope with uncertainty, manage dynamic environments, as well as provide greater flexibility. Distributed agent-based control systems are the id...
Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski
WINE
2005
Springer
146views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
15 years 5 months ago
A Cost Mechanism for Fair Pricing of Resource Usage
We propose a simple and intuitive cost mechanism which assigns costs for the competitive usage of m resources by n selfish agents. Each agent has an individual demand; demands are...
Marios Mavronicolas, Panagiota N. Panagopoulou, Pa...
KSEM
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Autonomy: Life and Being
This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a ne...
Mary-Anne Williams
POLICY
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
An Audit Logic for Accountability
We describe a policy language and implement its associated proof checking system. In our system, agents can distribute data along with usage policies in a decentralized architectu...
J. G. Cederquist, Ricardo Corin, M. A. C. Dekker, ...
PROCEDIA
2011
14 years 2 months ago
Exact Closest String as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem
We report the first evaluation of Constraint Satisfaction as a computational framework for solving closest string problems. We show that careful consideration of symbol occurrenc...
Tom Kelsey, Lars Kotthoff