Abstract— Markets and auctions have been proposed as mechanisms for efficiently and fairly allocating resources in a number of different computational settings. Economic approac...
We consider a distributed information system that allows autonomous consumers to query autonomous providers. We focus on the problem of query allocation from a new point of view, ...
—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...
Scientific articles are tailored to present information in human-readable aliquots. Although the Internet has revolutionized the way our society thinks about information, the trad...
Abstract One of the most significant paradigm shifts of modern business management is that individual businesses no longer compete as autonomous entities but rather as supply chain...
Areti Manataki, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger, Michael Rovat...