Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...
Brokers are used in many multi-agent systems for locating agents, for routing and sharing information, for managing the system, and for legal purposes, as independent third partie...
Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque
Model-based diagnosis is the field of research concerned with the problem of finding faults ms by reasoning with abstract models of the systems. Typically, such models offer a ...
The impact of using phrases as content representation for documents and for queries has generally been accepted as a desirable feature in information retrieval systems because phr...
In recent years, there have been intensive theoretical research works on modeling/analysis of oscillatory phenomena. In this paper, we derive a sufficient condition under which (a...