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DC
2010
14 years 9 months ago
A knowledge-based analysis of global function computation
Consider a distributed system N in which each agent has an input value and each communication link has a weight. Given a global function, that is, a function f whose value depends...
Joseph Y. Halpern, Sabina Petride
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FOSSACS
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Electoral Systems in Ambient Calculi
This paper compares the expressiveness of ambient calculi against different dialects of the pi-calculus. Cardelli and Gordon encoded the asynchronous pi-calculus into their calcul...
Iain Phillips, Maria Grazia Vigliotti
AAAI
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Cloning in Elections
We consider the problem of manipulating elections via cloning candidates. In our model, a manipulator can replace each candidate c by one or more clones, i.e., new candidates that...
Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski, Arkadii M. Slinko
IWINAC
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Tackling the Error Correcting Code Problem Via the Cooperation of Local-Search-Based Agents
We consider the problem of designing error correcting codes (ECC), a hard combinatorial optimization problem of relevance in the field of telecommunications. This problem is firs...
Jhon Edgar Amaya, Carlos Cotta, Antonio J. Fern&aa...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Copeland voting: ties matter
We study the complexity of manipulation for a family of election systems derived from Copeland voting via introducing a parameter that describes how ties in head-to-head contests...
Piotr Faliszewski, Edith Hemaspaandra, Henning Sch...