This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...
A research organization responds to a variety of customer requests. Each high level request is broken down into a set of low level requests. For each low level request, the resear...
: Networks having several hundred or more nodes and significant edge probabilities are extremely difficult to visualize. They typically appear as dense clumps, with the various sub...
Currently, there is renewed interest in the problem, raised by Shafer in 1985, of updating probabilities when observations are incomplete (or setvalued). This is a fundamental pro...
— We consider the decentralized binary hypothesis testing problem on trees of bounded degree and increasing depth. For a regular tree of depth t and branching factor k ≥ 2, we ...