The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism de...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
In this paper, we develop techniques based on evolvability statistics of the fitness landscape surrounding sampled solutions. Averaging the measures over a sample of equal fitness...
Tom Smith, Phil Husbands, Paul J. Layzell, Michael...
This paper presents an algorithm for incorporating a priori knowledge into data-driven identification of dynamic fuzzy models of the Takagi-Sugeno type. Knowledge about the modell...
The periodic broadcasting of frequently requested data can reduce the workload of uplink channels and improve data access for users in a wireless network. Since mobile devices hav...