A well-known result due to Vickery gives a mechanism for selling a number of goods to interested buyers in a way that achieves the maximum social welfare. In practice, a problem wi...
Abstract. This paper presents an argumentation mechanism for reconciling conflicts between planning agents related to plan proposals, which are caused by inconsistencies between b...
Alexandros Belesiotis, Michael Rovatsos, Iyad Rahw...
Abstract. With the advent of Service Oriented Architecture organizations have experienced services as a platform-independent technology to develop and use simple internal applicati...
Devis Bianchini, Cinzia Cappiello, Valeria De Anto...
Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), a simple method for combining the document rankings from multiple IR systems, consistently yields better results than any individual system, and bett...
Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, Stefan B&...
— One of the major driving forces of Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm (BFOA) is the reproduction phenomenon of virtual bacteria each of which models one trial solution o...