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AGENTS
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Integrating Communicative Action, Conversations and Decision Theory to Coordinate Agents
The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
Mihai Barbuceanu, Mark S. Fox
IEEEARES
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Diagnosis of Complex Systems Using Ant Colony Decision Petri Nets
Failure diagnosis in large and complex systems is a critical task. A discrete event system (DES) approach to the problem of failure diagnosis is presented in this paper. A classic...
Calin Ciufudean, Adrian Graur, Constantin Filote, ...
APPROX
2010
Springer
133views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Liftings of Tree-Structured Markov Chains - (Extended Abstract)
d Abstract) Thomas P. Hayes1 and Alistair Sinclair2 1 Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 2 Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley A &...
Thomas P. Hayes, Alistair Sinclair
CALCO
2007
Springer
100views Mathematics» more  CALCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Applications of Metric Coinduction
Metric coinduction is a form of coinduction that can be used to establish properties of objects constructed as a limit of finite approximations. One can prove a coinduction step s...
Dexter Kozen, Nicholas Ruozzi
STACS
2005
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Recursive Markov Chains, Stochastic Grammars, and Monotone Systems of Nonlinear Equations
We introduce and study Recursive Markov Chains (RMCs), which extend ordinary finite state Markov chains with the ability to invoke other Markov chains in a potentially recursive m...
Kousha Etessami, Mihalis Yannakakis