Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing offers new opportunities for building highly distributed data systems. Unlike client-server computing, P2P can operate without central coordination and...
Many situations present a social choice problem where different self-interested agents have to agree on joint, coordinated decisions. For example, power companies have to agree o...
As the amount of available data continues to increase, more and more effective means for discovering important patterns and relationships within that data are required. Although t...
A market-based scheduling mechanism allocates resources indexed by time to alternative uses based on the bids of participating agents. Agents are typically interested in multiple ...
Michael P. Wellman, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Danie...
Abstract-General information about a class of objects, such as human faces or teeth, can help to solve the otherwise ill-posed problem of reconstructing a complete surface from spa...
Volker Blanz, Albert Mehl, Thomas Vetter, Hans-Pet...