In online, dynamic environments, the services requested by consumers may not be readily served by the providers. This requires the service consumers and providers to negotiate the...
Let C be a class of distributions over {0, 1}n . A deterministic randomness extractor for C is a function E : {0, 1}n {0, 1}m such that for any X in C the distribution E(X) is sta...
Though adjustable autonomy is hardly a new topic in agent systems, there has been a general lack of consensus on terminology and basic concepts. In this paper, we describe the mul...
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Hyuckchul Jung, Shriniwas Kul...
Over the past several decades, the compiler research community has developed a number of sophisticated and powerful algorithms for a varierty of code improvements. While there are...
Bruce R. Childers, Jack W. Davidson, Mary Lou Soff...
Modern peer-to-peer file sharing systems rely heavily on the willingness of users to distribute files to others. A selfish user can choose to download a file and consume resou...