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DSN
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Precise request tracing and performance debugging for multi-tier services of black boxes
As more and more multi-tier services are developed from commercial components or heterogeneous middleware without the source code available, both developers and administrators nee...
Zhihong Zhang, Jianfeng Zhan, Yong Li, Lei Wang, D...
AIPS
2007
15 years 12 days ago
Monitoring Plan Optimality During Execution
A great deal of research has addressed the problem of generating optimal plans, but these plans are of limited use in circumstances where noisy sensors, unanticipated exogenous ac...
Christian Fritz, Sheila A. McIlraith
FLAIRS
2008
15 years 12 days ago
Recovering from Inconsistency in Distributed Simple Temporal Networks
Simple Temporal Networks (STNs) are frequently used in scheduling applications, as they provide a powerful and general tool for managing temporal constraints. One obstacle to thei...
Anthony Gallagher, Stephen F. Smith
ICALP
2010
Springer
15 years 1 days ago
On the Limitations of Greedy Mechanism Design for Truthful Combinatorial Auctions
We study the combinatorial auction (CA) problem, in which m objects are sold to rational agents and the goal is to maximize social welfare. Of particular interest is the special ca...
Allan Borodin, Brendan Lucier
FOIS
2008
14 years 11 months ago
On the Syntax and Semantics of Effect Axioms
Effect axioms constitute the cornerstone of formal theories of action in AI. They drive standard reasoning tasks, especially prediction. These tasks need not be coupled with actual...
Haythem O. Ismail