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AMEC
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Designing Auctions for Deliberative Agents
Abstract. In many settings, bidding agents for auctions do not know their preferences a priori. Instead, they must actively determine them through deliberation (e.g., information p...
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm
CBSE
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Extra-Functional Contract Support in Components
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...
Olivier Defour, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, ...
CCS
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Privacy and security in library RFID: issues, practices, and architectures
We expose privacy issues related to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in libraries, describe current deployments, and suggest novel architectures for library RFID. Libraries ...
David Molnar, David Wagner
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Controllability of Soft Temporal Constraint Problems
In real-life temporal scenarios, uncertainty and preferences are often essential, coexisting aspects. We present a formalism where temporal constraints with both preferences and un...
Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Neil Yorke...
DEXA
2004
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Towards Context-Aware Data Management for Ambient Intelligence
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a vision of future Information Society, where people are surrounded by an electronic environment which is sensitive to their needs, personalized to th...
Ling Feng, Peter M. G. Apers, Willem Jonker