The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism de...
In design, problem analysis is as important as solution synthesis. Strategic knowledge is required not only for constructing a solution but also for framing a problem. While exter...
A practical warm-start procedure is described for the infeasible primal-dualinterior-point method employed to solve the restricted master problem within the cutting-plane method. ...
Abstract. In the last years new scientific knowledge and technological developments derived from the Human Genome Project have been affecting the way in which biomedical research a...
: Directories provide a general mechanism for describing resources and enabling information sharing within and across organizations. Directories must resolve differing structures a...