The distributed task allocation problem occurs in domains like web services, the grid, and other distributed systems. In this problem, the system consists of servers and mediators...
In many Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), agents (even if selfinterested) need to cooperate in order to maximize their own utilities. Most of the multi-agent learning algorithms focus on...
Jose Enrique Munoz de Cote, Alessandro Lazaric, Ma...
In this paper we give a specification of a new block cipher that can be called the Courtois Toy Cipher (CTC). It is quite simple, and yet very much like any other known block ciph...
The notion of maintenance often appears in the AI literature in the context of agent behavior and planning. In this paper, we argue that earlier characterizations of the notion of...
Background: We propose a statistically principled baseline correction method, derived from a parametric smoothing model. It uses a score function to describe the key features of b...