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JCSS
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Towards a dichotomy for the Possible Winner problem in elections based on scoring rules
To make a joint decision, agents (or voters) are often required to provide their preferences as linear orders. To determine a winner, the given linear orders can be aggregated acc...
Nadja Betzler, Britta Dorn
IJCAI
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Towards Cooperative Negotiation for Decentralized Resource Allocation in Autonomic Computing Systems
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
CSFW
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Quantitative Analysis of Proofs of Authorization: Applications, Framework, and Techniques
—Although policy compliance testing is generally treated as a binary decision problem, the evidence gathered during the trust management process can actually be used to examine t...
Adam J. Lee, Ting Yu
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Towards a unifying characterization for quantifying weak coupling in dec-POMDPs
Researchers in the field of multiagent sequential decision making have commonly used the terms “weakly-coupled” and “loosely-coupled” to qualitatively classify problems i...
Stefan J. Witwicki, Edmund H. Durfee
SOUPS
2006
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
Aligning usability and security: a usability study of Polaris
Security software is often difficult to use thus leading to poor adoption and degraded security. This paper describes a usability study that was conducted on the software ‘Polar...
Alexander J. DeWitt, Jasna Kuljis