Negotiation techniques have been demonstrated to be effective in solving complex multi-objective problems. When the optimization process operates on continuous variables, it can b...
This paper presents postponed updates, a new strategy for TD methods that can improve sample efficiency without incurring the computational and space requirements of model-based ...
The information access and retrieval capabilities provided by several conventional search engines, while improving upon traditional techniques, are lacking in supporting conceptua...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
This paper deals with the monitoring and diagnosis of large discrete-event systems. The problem is to determine, online, all faults and states that explain the flow of observatio...