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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Undominated VCG redistribution mechanisms
Many important problems in multiagent systems can be seen as resource allocation problems. For such problems, the well-known Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism is efficient, in...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
DSN
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Design Time Reliability Analysis of Distributed Fault Tolerance Algorithms
Designing a distributed fault tolerance algorithm requires careful analysis of both fault models and diagnosis strategies. A system will fail if there are too many active faults, ...
Elizabeth Latronico, Philip Koopman
HICSS
1994
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
A Distributed Architecture for an Instructable Problem Solver
Our research goal is to design systems that enable humans to teach tedious, repetitive, simple tasks to a computer. We propose here a learner/problem solver architecture for such ...
Jacky Baltes, Bruce A. MacDonald
COORDINATION
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Component-Based Parallel Constraint Solver
As a case study that illustrates our view on coordination and component-based software engineering, we present the design and implementation of a parallel constraint solver. The pa...
Peter Zoeteweij, Farhad Arbab
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Scalable mechanism design for the procurement of services with uncertain durations
In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Kate Larson, Alex...