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ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Maximizing revenue in symmetric resource allocation systems when user utilities exhibit diminishing returns
Consumers of resources in realistic applications (e.g., web, multimedia) typically derive diminishing-return utilities from the amount of resource they receive. A resource provide...
Roie Zivan, Miroslav Dudík, Praveen Paruchu...
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ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Trust as dependence: a logical approach
We propose that the trust an agent places in another agent declaratively captures an architectural connector between the two agents. We formulate trust as a generic modality expre...
Munindar P. Singh
ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An abstract framework for reasoning about trust
Elisabetta Erriquez, Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael W...
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ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A double oracle algorithm for zero-sum security games on graphs
In response to the Mumbai attacks of 2008, the Mumbai police have started to schedule a limited number of inspection checkpoints on the road network throughout the city. Algorithm...
Manish Jain, Dmytro Korzhyk, Ondrej Vanek, Vincent...
ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The face of emotions: a logical formalization of expressive speech acts
In this paper, we merge speech act theory, emotion theory, and logic. We propose a modal logic that integrates the concepts of belief, goal, ideal and responsibility and that allo...
Nadine Guiraud, Dominique Longin, Emiliano Lorini,...
ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Metric learning for reinforcement learning agents
A key component of any reinforcement learning algorithm is the underlying representation used by the agent. While reinforcement learning (RL) agents have typically relied on hand-...
Matthew E. Taylor, Brian Kulis, Fei Sha
ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Interactive storytelling with temporal planning
Narrative time has an important role to play in Interactive Storytelling (IS) systems. In contrast to prevailing IS approaches which use implicit models of time, in our work we ha...
Julie Porteous, Jonathan Teutenberg, Fred Charles,...
ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Culture-related differences in aspects of behavior for virtual characters across Germany and Japan
Integrating culture as a parameter into the behavioral models of virtual characters to simulate cultural differences is becoming more and more popular. But do these differences ...
Birgit Endraß, Elisabeth André, Matth...
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ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Commitments with regulations: reasoning about safety and control in REGULA
Commitments provide a flexible means for specifying the business relationships among autonomous and heterogeneous agents, and lead to a natural way of enacting such relationships...
Elisa Marengo, Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, ...
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ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 3 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