In this paper we investigate extensions of the well-known Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanisms to problems whose objective function is not utilitarian and whose agents’ utiliti...
Giovanna Melideo, Paolo Penna, Guido Proietti, Rog...
As the mobility and the number of affordable, powerful, and highly portable devices becoming networked increases, so will the amount of networked services offered, managed and disc...
Bilhanan Silverajan, Jaakko Kalliosalo, Jarmo Harj...
Improv is a system for the creation of real-time behavior-based animated actors. There have been several recent efforts to build network distributed autonomous agents. But in gene...
Intelligent systems are often called upon to form plans that direct their own or other agents' activities. For these systems, the ability to describe plans to people in natur...
Background: Clinical protocols and guidelines have been considered as a major means to ensure that cost-effective services are provided at the point of care. Recently, the comput...
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, David Robertson, Pa...