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ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Actor-agent application for train driver rescheduling
This paper describes the design, implementation, visualizations, results and lessons learned of a novel real-world socio-technical research system for the purpose of rescheduling ...
Erwin J. W. Abbink, David G. A. Mobach, Pieter-Jan...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
An incentive-based architecture for social recommendations
We present an incentive-based architecture for providing recommendations in a social network. We maintain a distinct reputation system for each individual and we rely on users to ...
Rajat Bhattacharjee, Ashish Goel, Konstantinos Kol...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Modeling and understanding end-to-end class of service policies in operational networks
Business and economic considerations are driving the extensive use of service differentiation in Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) operated for business enterprises today. The resul...
Yu-Wei Eric Sung, Carsten Lund, Mark Lyn, Sanjay G...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
On the price of mediation
We study the relationship between the social cost of correlated equilibria and the social cost of Nash equilibria. In contrast to previous work focusing on the possible benefits ...
Milan Bradonjic, Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya, Adam Meyerson...