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IROS
2008
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
A performance sensitive hormone-inspired system for task distribution amongst evolving robots
— A hormone-inspired task scheduling method is described which assigns tasks to a group of robots, taking into account the robots’ performances. This method draws on previous w...
Joanne H. Walker, Myra S. Wilson
IJISEC
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
An incentive compatible reputation mechanism for ubiquitous computing environments
The vision of ubiquitous computing is becoming a reality thanks to the advent of portable devices and the advances in wireless networking technologies. It aims to facilitate user ...
Jinshan Liu, Valérie Issarny
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SEMWEB
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Strategy for Automated Meaning Negotiation in Distributed Information Retrieval
The paper reports on the formal framework to design strategies for multi-issue non-symmetric meaning negotiations among software agents in a distributed information retrieval syste...
Vadim Ermolayev, Natalya Keberle, Wolf-Ekkehard Ma...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
APSEC
1998
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
wwHww : An Application Framework of Distributed Systems for Enduser-Initiative Development
The number of endusers using the Internet increases on the inside and outside of offices. Enduser-initiative development of applications has become important for automation of the...
Takeshi Chusho, Katsuya Fujiwara