Consumers of resources in realistic applications (e.g., web, multimedia) typically derive diminishing-return utilities from the amount of resource they receive. A resource provide...
In this paper we demonstrate how a qualitative framework for decision making can be used to model scenarios from experimental economic studies and we show how our approach explains...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson, Peter Mc...
The organisational specification of a multi-agent system supports agents’ effectiveness in attaining their purpose, or prevent certain undesired behaviour from occurring. This r...
Huib Aldewereld, Virginia Dignum, Catholijn M. Jon...
In many dynamic matching applications—especially high-stakes ones—the competitive ratios of prior-free online algorithms are unacceptably poor. The algorithm should take distr...
John P. Dickerson, Ariel D. Procaccia, Tuomas Sand...
As the popularity of the social media increases, as evidenced in Twitter, Facebook and China’s Renren, spamming activities also picked up in numbers and variety. On social netwo...
Yin Zhu, Xiao Wang, ErHeng Zhong, Nathan Nan Liu, ...