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IJCAI
1989
13 years 7 months ago
Negotiation and Task Sharing Among Autonomous Agents in Cooperative Domains
Research in Distributed Artificial Intelligence is concerned with how automated agents can be designed to interact effectively. One important capability that could aid inter-agent...
Gilad Zlotkin, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
IJCSA
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Incremental Trade-Off Management for Preference-Based Queries
Preference-based queries often referred to as skyline queries play an important role in cooperative query processing. However, their prohibitive result sizes pose a severe challen...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, Christoph Lo...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Towards Cooperative Negotiation for Decentralized Resource Allocation in Autonomic Computing Systems
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
DASFAA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 18 days ago
Eliciting Matters - Controlling Skyline Sizes by Incremental Integration of User Preferences
Today, result sets of skyline queries are unmanageable due to their exponential growth with the number of query predicates. In this paper we discuss the incremental re-computation ...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, Christoph Lo...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Defeasible Ontology Language
We extend the description logic ¢¤£¦¥¦§©¨ with a preference order on the axioms. With this strict partial order certain axioms can be overruled, if defeated with more ...
Stijn Heymans, Dirk Vermeir