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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Searching social networks
A referral system is a multiagent system whose member agents are capable of giving and following referrals. The specific cases of interest arise where each agent has a user. The ...
Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh
DEBU
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
Provenance in ORCHESTRA
Sharing structured data today requires agreeing on a standard schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data to achieve a single queriable mediated instance. However, for setti...
Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Zachary G. ...
MST
2006
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15 years 1 months ago
Simple Efficient Load-Balancing Algorithms for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Load balancing is a critical issue for the efficient operation of peerto-peer networks. We give two new load-balancing protocols whose provable performance guarantees are within a...
David R. Karger, Matthias Ruhl
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
The LOGIC negotiation model
Successful negotiators prepare by determining their position along five dimensions: Legitimacy, Options, Goals, Independence, and Commitment, (LOGIC). We introduce a negotiation ...
Carles Sierra, John K. Debenham
ADB
1994
311views Database» more  ADB 1994»
15 years 5 months ago
A Personal and Portable Database Server: the CQL Card
Database applications and technologies are of central importance in many information systems a person may encounter. To obtain services, the end-users are required a smart card (pl...
Pierre Paradinas, Jean-Jacques Vandewalle