Design synthesis represents a highly complex task in the field of industrial design. The main difficulty in automating it is the definition of the design and performance spaces, i...
Francisco J. Vico, Francisco J. Veredas, Jos&eacut...
There are many situations where an agent can perform one of several sets of actions in responses to changes in its environment, and the agent chooses to perform the set of actions...
Bogdan Stroe, V. S. Subrahmanian, Sudeshna Dasgupt...
In service-oriented systems, such as grids and clouds, users are able to outsource complex computational tasks by procuring resources on demand from remote service providers. As th...
Sebastian Stein, Enrico Gerding, Nicholas R. Jenni...
In wireless ad hoc networks, autonomous nodes are reluctant to forward others' packets because of the nodes' limited energy. However, such selfishness and noncooperation ...
A well-known result due to Vickery gives a mechanism for selling a number of goods to interested buyers in a way that achieves the maximum social welfare. In practice, a problem wi...