— When an agent observes its environment, there are two important characteristics of the perceived information. One is the relevance of information and the other is redundancy. T...
Zhihui Luo, David A. Bell, Barry McCollum, Qingxia...
The revelation principle is a cornerstone tool in mechanism design. It states that one can restrict attention, without loss in the designer’s objective, to mechanisms in which A...
Developing automated agents that intelligently perform complex real world tasks is time consuming and expensive. The most expensive part of developing these intelligent task perfo...
Most former studies of Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DisCOPs) search considered only complete search algorithms, which are practical only for relatively small prob...
Security at major locations of economic or political importance is a key concern around the world, particularly given the threat of terrorism. Limited security resources prevent f...