Maintaining an asset with life-limited parts, e.g., a jet engine or an electric generator, may be costly. Certain costs, e.g., setup cost, can be shared if some parts of the asset ...
Tao Sun, Qianchuan Zhao, Peter B. Luh, Robert N. T...
— Imitation is a powerful mechanism for transferring knowledge from an instructor to a na¨ıve observer, one that is deeply contingent on a state of shared attention between the...
Aaron P. Shon, David B. Grimes, Chris Baker, Matth...
For long, node cooperation has been exploited as a data relaying mechanism. However, the wireless channel allows for much richer interaction between nodes. One such scenario is in...
Decentralized file-sharing systems like Napster [11] and Gnutella [23] have popularized the peer-to-peer approach [18,20,22], which emphasizes the use of distributed resources in ...
We study the problem of agents locating other agents that are both capable and willing to help complete assigned tasks. An agent incurs a fixed cost for each help request it sends...