Database indices provide a non-discriminative navigational infrastructure to localize tuples of interest. Their maintenance cost is taken during database updates. In this paper, w...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
Multiagent distributed resource allocation requires that agents act on limited, localized information with minimum communication overhead in order to optimize the distribution of ...
In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...
It makes sense that the more information people share, the better they communicate. To evaluate the effect of knowledge overlap on the effectiveness of communication, participants...
The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) may introduce misleading routing information into the routing table, due to network topology changes such as link or router failures. This is...