Assistance – work carried out by one entity in support of another – is a concept of long-standing interest, both as a type of human work common in organizations and as a model...
Thomas Erickson, Catalina M. Danis, Wendy A. Kello...
In the past decade great technological advances have been made in internet services, personal computers, telecommunications, media and entertainment. Many of these advances have be...
In this paper, we describe a range of audio problems that impact the effectiveness of audio conferences and detail the solutions we have devised to address these problems. We cond...
Nicole Yankelovich, Jonathan Kaplan, Joe Provino, ...
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...