Abstract. This work describes an evolutionary approach to texture segmentation, a long-standing and important problem in computer vision. The difficulty of the problem can be relat...
Designing an optimal overlay communication network for a set of processes on the Internet is a central problem of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing. Such a network defines membership a...
In this paper we present Trishul-UCON (T-UCON), a DRM system based on the UCONABC model. T-UCON is designed to be capable of enforcing not only application-specific policies, as a...
Srijith Krishnan Nair, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Gabrie...
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
An important aspect of mechanism design in social choice protocols and multiagent systems is to discourage insincere and manipulative behaviour. We examine the computational compl...