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MAGS
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
A decentralized model for automated multi-attribute negotiations with incomplete information and general utility functions
This paper presents a decentralized model that allows self-interested agents to reach "win-win" agreements in a multi-attribute negotiation. The model is based on an alt...
Guoming Lai, Katia P. Sycara, Cuihong Li
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Query optimization for ontology-based information integration
In recent years, there has been an explosion of publicly available RDF and OWL data sources. In order to effectively and quickly answer queries in such an environment, we present...
Yingjie Li, Jeff Heflin
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient information retrieval using mobile agents
We are concerned with the use of Mobile Agents for information retrieval. A multi-agent system is considered; a number of agents are involved in a collective effort to retrieve di...
Irene Sygkouna, Miltiades E. Anagnostou
VLDB
2005
ACM
118views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Selectivity Estimation for Fuzzy String Predicates in Large Data Sets
Many database applications have the emerging need to support fuzzy queries that ask for strings that are similar to a given string, such as “name similar to smith” and “tele...
Liang Jin, Chen Li
CMOT
2002
112views more  CMOT 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Finding Optimal Targets for Change Agents: A Computer Simulation of Innovation Diffusion
We introduce a diffusion of innovation model based on a network threshold approach. Realistic network and threshold data were gathered regarding the diffusion of new software tool...
Dirk Maienhofer, Thomas A. Finholt