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COCOON
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Scheduling Selfish Tasks: About the Performance of Truthful Algorithms
This paper deals with problems which fall into the domain of selfish scheduling: a protocol is in charge of building a schedule for a set of tasks without directly knowing their l...
George Christodoulou, Laurent Gourvès, Fann...
TIME
1994
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Algebraic Formulation of Temporal Knowledge for Reasoning about Recurring Events
We formulate an algebra of binary temporal relations between events the number of occurrences of which is unknown, but which are known to recur in time. Ontologically, we view the...
Robert A. Morris, William D. Shoaff, Lina Khatib
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Reasoning about the Past in Neural-symbolic Systems
Reasoning about the past is of fundamental importance in several applications in computer science and artificial intelligence, including reactive systems and planning. In this pa...
Rafael V. Borges, Luís C. Lamb, Artur S. d'...
AAAI
1996
13 years 8 months ago
Reasoning about Continuous Processes
Overcoming the disadvantages of equidistant discretization of continuous actions, we introduce an approach that separates time into slices of varying length bordered by certain ev...
Christoph S. Herrmann, Michael Thielscher
WSC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Expecting the unexpected: representing, reasoning about, and assessing construction project contingencies
Planning, scheduling and effective management of contingencies are crucial for the successful management of construction projects. In this paper we explore a mathematical represen...
G. Ryan Anderson, Nilufer Onder, Amlan Mukherjee