Models for sequential decision making under uncertainty (e.g., Markov decision processes,or MDPs) have beenstudied in operations research for decades. The recent incorporation of ...
This paper discusses the use of simulation in a new context. Most often QUEST is viewed as a stand-alone simulation tool to analyze and understand shop floor behavior. It has rare...
Establishing trust amongst agents is of central importance to the development of well-functioning multi-agent systems. For example, the anonymity of transactions on the Internet c...
Recently, decentralized publish-subscribe (pub-sub) systems have gained popularity as a scalable asynchronous messaging paradigm over wide-area networks. Most existing pub-sub sys...
Jianxia Chen, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, David Lowenthal
Short Messaging Service (SMS) based mobile information services have become increasingly common around the world, especially in emerging regions among users with low-end mobile de...
Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric A. Br...