Abstract. We introduce take-it-or-leave-it auctions (TLAs) as an allocation mechanism that allows buyers to retain much of their private valuation information, yet generates close-...
We present in this paper a hybrid planning system which combines constraint satisfaction techniques and planning heuristics to produce optimal sequential plans. It integrates its ...
In a market-based scheduling mechanism, the allocation of time-specific resources to tasks is governed by a competitive bidding process. Agents bidding for multiple, separately al...
Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Anna Osepayshvili, Daniel...
This paper is a contribution to the formalisation of Thagard’s coherence theory. The term coherence is defined as the quality or the state of cohering, especially a logical, ord...
Sindhu Joseph, Carles Sierra, W. Marco Schorlemmer...
Motivated by the growth of various networked systems as potential market places, we study market models wherein, owing to the size of the markets, transactions take place between l...
Atish Das Sarma, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Sreenivas ...