This paper addresses the problem of identifying the value of information held by a teammate on a distributed, multi-agent team. It focuses on a distributed scheduling task in whic...
In many sensing applications we must continuously gather information to provide a good estimate of the state of the environment at every point in time. A robot may tour an environ...
Alexandra Meliou, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin,...
We describe Occam, a query planning algorithm that determines the best way to integrate data from dierent sources. As input, Occam takes a library of site descriptions and a user ...
The events occurring in the execution of a distributed or parallel application are related by a partial, rather than a total, order. We have developed prototype software that coll...
We propose a method for measuring the quality of a grouping result, based on the following observation: a better grouping result provides more information about the true, unknown g...
Erik A. Engbers, Michael Lindenbaum, Arnold W. M. ...