We study how decentralized agents can develop a shared vocabulary without global coordination. Answering this question can help us understand the emergence of many communication s...
Abstract-- The performance of collective communication operations is known to have a significant impact on the scalability of some applications. Indeed, the global, synchronous nat...
Ron Brightwell, Sue Goudy, Arun Rodrigues, Keith D...
The paper describes some innovations related to the ongoing work on the GSA prototype, an integrated information retrieval agent. In order to improve the original system effective...
Giovambattista Ianni, Francesco Ricca, Francesco C...
"Radio Frequency Identification" (RFID) promises to enable an automatic collection of shopping data for business intelligent purposes. Three important components of inte...
Procedures for collective inference make simultaneous statistical judgments about the same variables for a set of related data instances. For example, collective inference could b...