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AAAI
2008
14 years 4 days ago
Partially Synchronized DEC-MDPs in Dynamic Mechanism Design
In this paper, we combine for the first time the methods of dynamic mechanism design with techniques from decentralized decision making under uncertainty. Consider a multi-agent s...
Sven Seuken, Ruggiero Cavallo, David C. Parkes
AIPS
2007
14 years 4 days ago
A Fast Incremental Algorithm for Maintaining Dispatchability of Partially Controllable Plans
Autonomous systems operating in real-world environments must be able to plan, schedule, and execute missions while robustly adapting to uncertainty and disturbances. Previous work...
Julie A. Shah, John Stedl, Brian C. Williams, Paul...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On k-optimal distributed constraint optimization algorithms: new bounds and algorithms
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) is a promising approach to coordination, scheduling and task allocation in multi agent networks. In large-scale or low-bandwidth network...
Emma Bowring, Jonathan P. Pearce, Christopher Port...
CAISE
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Process Flexibility: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches
Abstract. Business processes provide a means of coordinating interactions between workers and organisations in a structured way. However the dynamic nature of the modern business e...
Helen Schonenberg, Ronny Mans, Nick Russell, Natal...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating bidding strategies for simultaneous auctions
Bidding for multiple items or bundles on online auctions raises challenging problems. We assume that an agent has a valuation function that returns its valuation for an arbitrary ...
Teddy Candale, Sandip Sen