Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and descr...
Software that covertly monitors a user’s actions, also known as spyware, has become a first-level security threat due to its ubiquity and the difficulty of detecting and remov...
Debra L. Cook, Ricardo A. Baratto, Angelos D. Kero...
Abstract. Many practical scenarios involve solving a social choice problem: a group of self-interested agents have to agree on an outcome that best fits their combined preferences...
Abstract. The emergence of complex network structures of relationships between autonomous agents occurs in a wide range of distributed systems. Many researchers have proposed model...
Abstract. Empirical optimizers like ATLAS have been very effective in optimizing computational kernels in libraries. The best choice of parameters such as tile size and degree of l...