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SIGECOM
2005
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Congestion games with failures
We introduce a new class of games, congestion games with failures (CGFs), which extends the class of congestion games to allow for facility failures. In a basic CGF (BCGF) agents ...
Michal Penn, Maria Polukarov, Moshe Tennenholtz
SIGUCCS
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Developing a synchronous web seminar application for online learning
Many higher education institutions are searching for cost effective tools for the delivery of a feature rich, synchronous online learning environment. While there are several comm...
Michael D. Ciocco, Neil Toporski, Michael Dorris
WPES
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
The privacy cost of the second-chance offer
This paper examines a generalization of a two-stage game common on eBay: an ascending-price auction followed by price discrimination (the second chance offer). High bids in the a...
Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun, Poorvi L. Vora
AOSE
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Zooming Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract Complex systems call for a hierarchical description. Analogously, the engineering of non-trivial MASs (multiagent systems) requires principles and mechanisms for a multi-l...
Ambra Molesini, Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, ...
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A scalable approach to multi-agent resource acquisition and control
Scalable coordination is a key challenge in deployment of multiagent systems. Resource usage is one part of agent behavior which naturally lends itself to abstraction. CyberOrgs i...
Nadeem Jamali, Xinghui Zhao