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AAAI
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Methods for Boosting Revenue in Combinatorial Auctions
We study the recognized open problem of designing revenuemaximizing combinatorial auctions. It is unsolved even for two bidders and two items for sale. Rather than pursuing the pu...
Anton Likhodedov, Tuomas Sandholm
QSHINE
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Utility-based Adaptive Resource Allocation in Hybrid Wireless Networks
Service availability in wireless networks is highly dependent on efficient resource allocation and guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) amid overloads and failures. This paper add...
Calin Curescu, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Bing Cao, Tere...
CDC
2009
IEEE
173views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 13 days ago
Sequentially updated Probability Collectives
— Multi-agent coordination problems can be cast as distributed optimization tasks. Probability Collectives (PCs) are techniques that deal with such problems in discrete and conti...
Michalis Smyrnakis, David S. Leslie
CDC
2008
IEEE
166views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Distributed coverage verification in sensor networks without location information
In this paper, we present a series of distributed algorithms for coverage verification in sensor networks with no location information. We demonstrate how, in the absence of locali...
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Ali Jadbabaie
GECCO
2005
Springer
166views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
The emulation of social institutions as a method of coevolution
This paper offers a novel approach to coevolution based on the sociological theory of symbolic interactionism. It provides a multi-agent computational model along with experimenta...
Deborah Vakas Duong, John J. Grefenstette