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VLDB
2006
ACM
172views Database» more  VLDB 2006»
14 years 7 months ago
Hierarchical hippocratic databases with minimal disclosure for virtual organizations
Abstract The protection of customer privacy is a fundamental issue in today's corporate marketing strategies. Not surprisingly, many research efforts have proposed new privacy...
Fabio Massacci, John Mylopoulos, Nicola Zannone
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Reasoning about judgment and preference aggregation
Agents that must reach agreements with other agents need to reason about how their preferences, judgments, and beliefs might be aggregated with those of others by the social choic...
Thomas Ågotnes, Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael ...
GECCO
2005
Springer
161views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 27 days ago
Autonomous navigation system applied to collective robotics with ant-inspired communication
Research in collective robotics is motivated mainly by the possibility of achieving an efficient solution to multi-objective navigation tasks when multiple robots are employed, in...
Renato Reder Cazangi, Fernando J. Von Zuben, Maur&...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Incorporating helpful behavior into collaborative planning
This paper considers the design of agent strategies for deciding whether to help other members of a group with whom an agent is engaged in a collaborative activity. Three characte...
Ece Kamar, Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz
SOUPS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Intentional access management: making access control usable for end-users
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...
Xiang Cao, Lee Iverson