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ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A polynomial algorithm for decentralized Markov decision processes with temporal constraints
One of the difficulties to adapt MDPs for the control of cooperative multi-agent systems, is the complexity issued from Decentralized MDPs. Moreover, existing approaches can not ...
Aurélie Beynier, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
CEAS
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Implicit Queries for Email
Implicit query systems examine a document and automatically conduct searches for the most relevant information. In this paper, we offer three contributions to implicit query resea...
Joshua Goodman, Vitor R. Carvalho
POLICY
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Goal-based Approach to Policy Refinement
As the interest in using policy-based approaches for systems management grows, it is becoming increasingly important to develop methods for performing analysis and refinement of p...
Arosha K. Bandara, Emil Lupu, Jonathan D. Moffett,...
ECIS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Leveraging organizational knowledge to formulate manufacturing strategy
This paper describes a web-based system that integrates knowledge management and decision-making features to enable short-term communities of practice develop manufacturing strate...
Nikos I. Karacapilidis, Emmanuel Adamides, Christi...
ICMAS
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Poaching and Distraction in Asynchronous Agent Activities
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
Mike H. Chia, Daniel E. Neiman, Victor R. Lesser