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ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Commitment-driven distributed joint policy search
Decentralized MDPs provide powerful models of interactions in multi-agent environments, but are often very difficult or even computationally infeasible to solve optimally. Here we...
Stefan J. Witwicki, Edmund H. Durfee
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Strong Barrier Coverage with Directional Sensors
Abstract—The barrier coverage model was proposed for applications in which sensors are deployed for intrusion detection. In this paper, we study a strong barrier coverage problem...
Li Zhang, Jian Tang, Weiyi Zhang
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ICNP
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
oCast: Optimal Multicast Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
—In this paper, we describe oCast, an energy-optimal multicast routing protocol for wireless sensor networks. The general minimum-energy multicast problem is NP-hard. Intermitten...
Lu Su, Bolin Ding, Yong Yang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher,...
CIA
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Quantifying the Expected Utility of Information in Multi-agent Scheduling Tasks
Abstract. In this paper we investigate methods for analyzing the expected value of adding information in distributed task scheduling problems. As scheduling problems are NP-complet...
Avi Rosenfeld, Sarit Kraus, Charlie Ortiz
ICNP
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Benefit-based Data Caching in Ad Hoc Networks
—Data caching can significantly improve the efficiency of information access in a wireless ad hoc network by reducing the access latency and bandwidth usage. However, designing e...
Bin Tang, Himanshu Gupta, Samir R. Das