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CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Coordination and beyond: social functions of groups in open content production
We report on a study of the English edition of Wikipedia in which we used a mixed methods approach to understand how nested organizational structures called WikiProjects support c...
Andrea Forte, Niki Kittur, Vanessa Larco, Haiyi Zh...
WSC
2000
15 years 12 days ago
A formation behavior for large-scale micro-robot force deployment
Micro-robots will soon be available for deployment by the thousands. Consequently, controlling and coordinating a force this large to accomplish a prescribed task is of great inte...
Donald D. Dudenhoeffer, Michael P. Jones
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
MADeM: a multi-modal decision making for social MAS
This paper presents MADeM, a multi-modal agent decision making to provide virtual agents with socially acceptable decisions. We consider multi-modal decisions as those that are ab...
Francisco Grimaldo, Miguel Lozano, Fernando Barber
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Exploring Congruence Between Organizational Structure and Task Performance: A Simulation Approach
Reorganization of the structure of an organization is a crucial issue in multi-agent systems that operate in an open, dynamic environment. Ideally, autonomous agents must be able t...
Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Liz Sonenberg
ICALP
2004
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Coordination Mechanisms
Abstract. We introduce the notion of coordination mechanisms to improve the performance in systems with independent selfish and noncolluding agents. The quality of a coordination ...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Akash Nan...