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SIGECOM
2005
ACM
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Congestion games with failures
We introduce a new class of games, congestion games with failures (CGFs), which extends the class of congestion games to allow for facility failures. In a basic CGF (BCGF) agents ...
Michal Penn, Maria Polukarov, Moshe Tennenholtz
SIGUCCS
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Developing a synchronous web seminar application for online learning
Many higher education institutions are searching for cost effective tools for the delivery of a feature rich, synchronous online learning environment. While there are several comm...
Michael D. Ciocco, Neil Toporski, Michael Dorris
WPES
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The privacy cost of the second-chance offer
This paper examines a generalization of a two-stage game common on eBay: an ascending-price auction followed by price discrimination (the second chance offer). High bids in the a...
Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun, Poorvi L. Vora
AOSE
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Zooming Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract Complex systems call for a hierarchical description. Analogously, the engineering of non-trivial MASs (multiagent systems) requires principles and mechanisms for a multi-l...
Ambra Molesini, Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, ...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A scalable approach to multi-agent resource acquisition and control
Scalable coordination is a key challenge in deployment of multiagent systems. Resource usage is one part of agent behavior which naturally lends itself to abstraction. CyberOrgs i...
Nadeem Jamali, Xinghui Zhao