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JCSS
2010
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15 years 10 days 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
15 years 3 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,...
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CSFW
2010
IEEE
15 years 5 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
14 years 1 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
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SOUPS
2006
ACM
15 years 7 months 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