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ATAL
2000
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Delegation and Responsibility
An agent may decide to delegate tasks to others. The act of delegating a task by one autonomous agent to another can be carried out by the performance of one or more imperative com...
Timothy J. Norman, Chris Reed
PODS
2003
ACM
118views Database» more  PODS 2003»
14 years 7 months ago
Numerical document queries
A query against a database behind a site like Napster may search, e.g., for all users who have downloaded more jazz titles than pop music titles. In order to express such queries,...
Helmut Seidl, Thomas Schwentick, Anca Muscholl
ISSAC
2005
Springer
101views Mathematics» more  ISSAC 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Adherence is better than adjacency: computing the Riemann index using CAD
Given an elementary function with algebraic branch cuts, we show how to decide which sheet of the associated Riemann surface we are on at any given point. We do this by establishi...
James C. Beaumont, Russell J. Bradford, James H. D...
ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Peer Pressure as a Driver of Adaptation in Agent Societies
We consider a resource access control scenario in an open multi-agent system. We specify a mutable set of rules to determine how resource allocation is decided, and minimally assum...
Hugo Carr, Jeremy V. Pitt, Alexander Artikis
EDBT
2004
ACM
119views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
14 years 7 months ago
NNH: Improving Performance of Nearest-Neighbor Searches Using Histograms
Efficient search for nearest neighbors (NN) is a fundamental problem arising in a large variety of applications of vast practical interest. In this paper we propose a novel techniq...
Liang Jin, Nick Koudas, Chen Li