In this paper we describe a paradigm for contentfocused matchmaking, based on a recently proposed model for constraint acquisition-and-satisfaction. Matchmaking agents are conceiv...
Information retrieval systems are frequently required to handle long queries. Simply using all terms in the query or relying on the underlying retrieval model to appropriately wei...
When using communication in multi-robot systems it's often not desirable to choose an form of communication that separates the messages from the physical environment in which...
The ontology used by most card catalog and bibliographic systems is based on a now outdated assumption that users of the systems would be looking for books on shelves, and therefo...
Gossip algorithms for aggregation have recently received significant attention for sensor network applications because of their simplicity and robustness in noisy and uncertain en...
Alexandros G. Dimakis, Anand D. Sarwate, Martin J....