We study a representative task allocation problem called shortest paths: Let G be a graph in which the edges are owned by self interested agents. The cost of each edge is privatel...
Product Distribution (PD) theory is a new framework for controlling Multi-Agent Systems (MAS’s). First we review one motivation of PD theory, as the information-theoretic extens...
Abstract. We present a cost-based adaptive clustering method to improve average performance of spatial queries (intersection, containment, enclosure queries) over large collections...
Abstract. We present a technique for Merkle tree traversal which requires only logarithmic space and time1 . For a tree with N nodes, our algorithm computes sequential tree leaves ...
In this paper we report experience in the use of computational grids in the domain of natural language processing, particularly in the area of information extraction, to create qu...