When agents are acting together, they may need a simple mechanism to decide on joint actions. One possibility is to have the agents express their preferences in the form of a ballo...
Reasoning about agent preferences on a set of alternatives, and the aggregation of such preferences into some social ranking is a fundamental issue in reasoning about multi-agent ...
Abstract--This paper compares two evaluation criterion frameworks for sociotechnical software. Research on the technology acceptance model (TAM) confirms that perceived usefulness ...
Commercial service providers and secret services yearn to employ the available environment for conveyance of their data in a secured way. In order to encrypt or to ensure personal...
Abstract. We consider exchange economies where the traders’ preferences are expressed in terms of the extensively used constant elasticity of substitution (CES) utility functions...
Bruno Codenotti, Benton McCune, Sriram Penumatcha,...