When agents need to interact in order to solve some (possibly common) problem, resolving potential conflicts beforehand is often preferred to coordination during execution. Agents...
This paperdescribes the use of a powerful graph query language for querying programs, and a novel combination of transformations for generating efficient implementations of the q...
K. Tuncay Tekle, Michael Gorbovitski, Yanhong A. L...
We introduce Multi-Trials, a new technique for symmetry breaking for distributed algorithms and apply it to various problems in general graphs. For instance, we present three rand...
We consider a setting in which a principal seeks to induce an adaptive agent to select a target action by providing incentives on one or more actions. The agent maintains a belief...
Yiling Chen, Jerry Kung, David C. Parkes, Ariel D....
This paper addresses the problem of fast retrieval of data from XML documents by providing a labeling schema that can easily handle simple as well as complex XPATH queries and als...