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ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Specifying and resolving preferences among agent interaction patterns
A strength of commitment protocols is that they enable agents to act flexibly, thereby enabling them to accommodate varying local policies and respond to exceptions. A consequent ...
Ashok U. Mallya, Munindar P. Singh
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Modeling uncertain domains with polyagents
Agent-based modeling is a powerful tool for systems modeling. Instantiating each domain entity with an agent permits us to capture many aspects of system dynamics and interactions...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner
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ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Junta distributions and the average-case complexity of manipulating elections
Encouraging voters to truthfully reveal their preferences in an election has long been an important issue. Previous studies have shown that some voting protocols are hard to manip...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
CCS
2006
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
On the modeling and analysis of obligations
Traditional security policies largely focus on access control requirements, which specify who can access what under what circumstances. Besides access control requirements, the av...
Keith Irwin, Ting Yu, William H. Winsborough
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Improving novelty detection for general topics using sentence level information patterns
The detection of new information in a document stream is an important component of many potential applications. In this work, a new novelty detection approach based on the identif...
Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft