We present Variable Influence Structure Analysis, or VISA, an algorithm that performs hierarchical decomposition of factored Markov decision processes. VISA uses a dynamic Bayesia...
Configurable business software solutions are increasingly being implemented based on service oriented architectures (SOA). Hereunto model driven approaches for the definition and i...
This paper studies adaptive bilateral negotiation between software agents in e-commerce environments. Specifically, we assume that the agents are self-interested, the environment...
The problem of interest is how to dynamically allocate wireless access services in a competitive market which implements a take-it-or-leave-it allocation mechanism. In this paper ...
George Lee, Steven Bauer, Peyman Faratin, John Wro...
Abstract. Scheduling the execution of multiple concurrent tasks on shared resources such as CPUs and network links is essential to ensuring the reliable operation of many autonomic...
Terry Tidwell, Robert Glaubius, Christopher D. Gil...