In many multiagent settings, situations arise in which agents must collectively make decisions while not every agent is supposed to have an equal amount of influence in the outcom...
With the exponential growth of biological sequence databases, it has become critical to develop effective techniques for storing, querying, and analyzing these massive data. Suffi...
Auctions have become popular in conducting trade negotiations on the Internet. The design of new auction formats and other negotiation protocols has become an important topic for r...
Background: Interest is growing in the application of syntactic parsers to natural language processing problems in biology, but assessing their performance is difficult because di...
During the planning process, a planner may have many options for refinements to perform on the plan being developed. The planner’s efficiency depends on how it chooses which ref...