Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
Gaze is an extremely important aspect of human face to face interaction. Over the course of an interaction, a single individual’s gaze can perform many different functions, such...
This paper considers the design of agent strategies for deciding whether to help other members of a group with whom an agent is engaged in a collaborative activity. Three characte...
In this paper we study approximate landmark-based methods for point-to-point distance estimation in very large networks. These methods involve selecting a subset of nodes as landm...
Michalis Potamias, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castil...
The Bag of Visual Words (BoV) paradigm has successfully been applied to image content analysis tasks such as image classification and object detection. The basic BoV approach ove...