The algebraic framework introduced in [Koutis, Proc. of the 35th ICALP 2008] reduces several combinatorial problems in parameterized complexity to the problem of detecting multili...
Sigma, the first single-round group membership (GM) algorithm, was recently introduced and demonstrated to operate consistently with theoretical expectations in a simulated WAN en...
The SharedPlans formalization of collaboration (Grosz and Kraus 1999) stipulates that collaborating agents must commit to certain decision-making processes, but it does not specif...
During grouping tasks for data exploration and sense-making, the criteria are normally not well-defined. When users are bringing together data objects thought to be similar in som...
Xiaohua Sun, Patrick Chiu, Jeffrey Huang, Maribeth...
—In this paper, we propose a novel communication paradigm called group-oriented communication. Different from conventional unicast-based communications, group-oriented communicat...