This paper presents a novel, unified distributed constraint satisfaction framework based on automated negotiation. The Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DCSP) is one t...
Abstract— This paper presents a decentralized negotiation protocol for cooperative economic scheduling in a supply chain environment. For this purpose we designed autonomous agen...
Creating high-quality multimediapresentationsrequiresmuch skill, time, and effort. This is particularly true when temporal media, such as speech and animation, are involved. We de...
Mukesh Dalal, Steven Feiner, Kathleen McKeown, Shi...
Notions of fairness have recently received increased attention in the context of resource allocation problems, pushed by diverse applications where not only pure utilitarian effic...
In this paper, we describe a security model where users are allowed to control their obligations partially or totally, depending on the security policy. The main motivation of our...