The progressive processing model allows a system to trade off resource consumption against the quality of the outcome by mapping each activity to a graph of potential solution met...
Progressive processing plans allow systems to tradeoff computational resources against the quality of service by specifying alternative ways in which to accomplish each step. When ...
Shlomo Zilberstein, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib, Andrew A...
We consider a novel class of applications where a set of activities conducted by a group of people over a time period needs to be planned, taking into account each member's p...
This paper extends the framework of partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) to multi-agent settings by incorporating the notion of agent models into the state spac...
In a peer-to-peer file-sharing system, a client desiring a particular file must choose a source from which to download. The problem of selecting a good data source is difficult...
Daniel S. Bernstein, Zhengzhu Feng, Brian Neil Lev...