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ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed management of flexible times schedules
In this paper we consider the problem of managing and exploiting schedules in an uncertain and distributed environment. We assume a team of collaborative agents, each responsible ...
Stephen F. Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimm...
GECCO
2008
Springer
141views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Managing team-based problem solving with symbiotic bid-based genetic programming
Bid-based Genetic Programming (GP) provides an elegant mechanism for facilitating cooperative problem decomposition without an a priori specification of the number of team member...
Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood
AAAI
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Linear Dynamic Programs for Resource Management
Sustainable resource management in many domains presents large continuous stochastic optimization problems, which can often be modeled as Markov decision processes (MDPs). To solv...
Marek Petrik, Shlomo Zilberstein
VLDB
1998
ACM
116views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
The Heterogeneity Problem and Middleware Technology: Experiences with and Performance of Database Gateways
In this paper, we present the results that we have obtained by comparing and testing three well-known database middleware solutions. We have analyzed their features related to glo...
Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Klaudia Hergula
WECWIS
2005
IEEE
141views ECommerce» more  WECWIS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
An Adaptive Bilateral Negotiation Model for E-Commerce Settings
This paper studies adaptive bilateral negotiation between software agents in e-commerce environments. Specifically, we assume that the agents are self-interested, the environment...
Vidya Narayanan, Nicholas R. Jennings