A fundamental difficulty faced by groups of agents that work together is how to efficiently coordinate their efforts. This coordination problem is both ubiquitous and challenging,...
In online, dynamic environments, the services requested by consumers may not be readily served by the providers. This requires the service consumers and providers to negotiate the...
: To make a new problem from the original one and to compare their solutions are promising activities to promote a learner to be aware of the structure of these problems. Especiall...
In the single rent-to-buy decision problem, without a priori knowledge of the amount of time a resource will be used we need to decide when to buy the resource, given that we can ...
: Collaborative learning environments require carefully crafted designs –both technical and social. This paper presents a model describing how to design socio-technical environme...