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DALT
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Lightweight Coordination Calculus for Agent Systems
The concept of a social norm is used in multi-agent systems to specify behaviours required of agents interacting in a given social context. We describe a method for specifying soci...
David Robertson
SODA
2012
ACM
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11 years 11 months ago
Resource augmentation for weighted flow-time explained by dual fitting
We propose a general dual-fitting technique for analyzing online scheduling algorithms in the unrelated machines setting where the objective function involves weighted flow-time...
S. Anand 0002, Naveen Garg, Amit Kumar
UIST
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Viz: a visual analysis suite for explaining local search behavior
NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems are common in real life. Due to their intractability, local search algorithms are often used to solve such problems. Since these algori...
Steven Halim, Roland H. C. Yap, Hoong Chuin Lau
VL
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Sketching with Conceptual Metaphors to Explain Computational Processes
To explore how people conceptualize a complex system, 232 university students were asked to sketch how a search engine works. While the sketches reveal a diverse range of visual a...
David G. Hendry
AGENTS
1999
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
A Personal News Agent That Talks, Learns and Explains
Most work on intelligent information agents has thus far focused on systems that are accessible through the World Wide Web. As demanding schedules prohibit people from continuous ...
Daniel Billsus, Michael J. Pazzani