Abstract. Often, decision making involves autonomous agents that are structured in a complex hierarchy, representing e.g. authority. Typically the agents share the same body of kno...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
In this paper, we present a new framework for the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in engineering design for configuration applications. Traditional VR systems support the visual explo...
Pairwise key establishment is a fundamental service provided in secure sensor networks. However, due to resource constraints, establishing pairwise keys is not a trivial task. Rec...
Takashi Ito, Hidenori Ohta, Nori Matsuda, Takeshi ...
Millions of containers are stowed every week with goods worth billions of dollars, but container vessel stowage is an all but neglected combinatorial optimization problem. In this ...
We present and implement an infrastructure for automating the negotiation of business contracts. Underlying our system is a declarative language for both (1) fully-specified, exe...
Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Benjamin N. ...