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ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Operational semantics of goal models in adaptive agents
Several agent-oriented software engineering methodologies address the emerging challenges posed by the increasing need of adaptive software. A common denominator of such methodolo...
Mirko Morandini, Loris Penserini, Anna Perini
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Graph-based methods for the analysis of large-scale multiagent systems
Multiagent systems are often characterized by complex, and sometimes unpredictable interactions amongst their autonomous components. While these systems can provide robust and sca...
Wilbur Peng, William Krueger, Alexander Grushin, P...
SAGT
2009
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Non-clairvoyant Scheduling Games
In a scheduling game, each player owns a job and chooses a machine to execute it. While the social cost is the maximal load over all machines (makespan), the cost (disutility) of ...
Christoph Dürr, Nguyen Kim Thang
KBSE
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Automated test generation for engineering applications
In test generation based on model-checking, white-box test criteria are represented as trap conditions written in a temporal logic. A model checker is used to refute trap conditio...
Songtao Xia, Ben Di Vito, César Muño...