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ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 6 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
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GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 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 7 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,...
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CIA
2007
Springer
15 years 6 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 6 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