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ICMAS
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Heterogeneity, Stability, and Efficiency in Distributed Systems
This paper explores the increasing the heterogeneity of an agent population to stabilize decentralized systems by adding bias terms to each agent's expected payoffs. Two appr...
James D. Thomas, Katia P. Sycara
TSP
2010
13 years 1 months ago
Decentralized sparse signal recovery for compressive sleeping wireless sensor networks
Abstract--This paper develops an optimal decentralized algorithm for sparse signal recovery and demonstrates its application in monitoring localized phenomena using energy-constrai...
Qing Ling, Zhi Tian
AAAI
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Boosting Combinatorial Search Through Randomization
Unpredictability in the running time of complete search procedures can often be explained by the phenomenon of "heavy-tailed cost distributions", meaning that at any tim...
Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman, Henry A. Kautz
AH
2004
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
Using SiteRank for Decentralized Computation of Web Document Ranking
Abstract. The PageRank algorithm demonstrates the significance of the computation of document ranking of general importance or authority in Web information retrieval. However, doi...
Jie Wu, Karl Aberer
JAIR
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Communication-Based Decomposition Mechanisms for Decentralized MDPs
Multi-agent planning in stochastic environments can be framed formally as a decentralized Markov decision problem. Many real-life distributed problems that arise in manufacturing,...
Claudia V. Goldman, Shlomo Zilberstein