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ICMAS
1998
14 years 11 months ago
A Market Protocol for Decentralized Task Allocation
We present a decentralized, asynchronous market protocol for allocating and scheduling tasks among agents that contend for scarce resources, constrained by a hierarchical task dep...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman
ENTCS
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
On the Decidability of the Safety Problem for Access Control Policies
An access control system regulates the rights of users to gain access to resources in accordance with a specified policy. The rules in this policy may interact in a way that is n...
E. Kleiner, T. Newcomb
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Resilience through technology adoption: merging the old and the new in Iraq
Little attention has been given to how citizens use technology to be resilient when their country is at war. We report on an ethnographic interview study of how technology was ado...
Gloria Mark, Ban Al-Ani, Bryan Semaan
STOC
2007
ACM
101views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Toward a general theory of quantum games
We study properties of quantum strategies, which are complete specifications of a given party's actions in any multiple-round interaction involving the exchange of quantum in...
Gus Gutoski, John Watrous
ISSTA
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Analyzing singularity channel contracts
This paper presents techniques for analyzing channel contract specifications in Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system. A channel contract is a state machine that sp...
Zachary Stengel, Tevfik Bultan