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ESAW
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Motivation-Based Selection of Negotiation Opponents
Abstract. If we are to enable agents to handle increasingly greater levels of complexity, it is necessary to equip them with mechanisms that support greater degrees of autonomy. Th...
Stephen J. Munroe, Michael Luck
IAT
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An Application of Automated Negotiation to Distributed Task Allocation
Through automated negotiation we aim to improve task allocation in a distributed sensor network. In particular, we look at a type of adaptive weather-sensing radar that permits th...
Michael Krainin, Bo An, Victor R. Lesser
DRM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Fairer usage contracts for DRM
DRM has been widely promoted as a means to enforce copyright. In many previous papers, it has been argued that DRM gives too much power to rights holders and actually goes beyond ...
Alapan Arnab, Andrew Hutchison
MICROMACHINES
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Modeling Self-Assembly Across Scales: The Unifying Perspective of Smart Minimal Particles
: A wealth of current research in microengineering aims at fabricating devices of increasing complexity, notably by (self-)assembling elementary components into heterogeneous funct...
Massimo Mastrangeli, Grégory Mermoud, Alche...
ICDCSW
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
QoS Oriented Dynamic Replica Cost Model for P2P Computing
Replication on multiple nodes is an effective way to improve the availability in the P2P or grid environment. It is difficult to determine how many replicas can fulfill the user r...
Feng Mao, Hai Jin, Deqing Zou, Baoli Chen, Li Qi