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ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 28 days ago
Scalable mechanism design for the procurement of services with uncertain durations
In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Kate Larson, Alex...
PCI
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Investigation of Information Dissemination Design Criteria in Large-Scale Network Environments
—The design of efficient information dissemination mechanism is a challenging problem in large-scale network with respect to the number of messages and termination time. In this...
Konstantinos Oikonomou, Dimitrios Kogias, Leonidas...
GPCE
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Generative programming techniques for Java library migration
Embedded systems can be viewed as scaled-down versions of their one counterparts. In many cases, the software abstractions and libraries for embedded systems can be derived from l...
Victor L. Winter, Azamatbek Mametjanov
FOCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Truthful and Near-Optimal Mechanism Design via Linear Programming
We give a general technique to obtain approximation mechanisms that are truthful in expectation. We show that for packing domains, any α-approximation algorithm that also bounds ...
Ron Lavi, Chaitanya Swamy
IJRR
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Automated Design of Adaptive Controllers for Modular Robots using Reinforcement Learning
Designing distributed controllers for self-reconfiguring modular robots has been consistently challenging. We have developed a reinforcement learning approach which can be used bo...
Paulina Varshavskaya, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Danie...