The stable marriage problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
We ask the question, "for minimizing mean response time (sojourn time), which is preferable: one fast server of speed 1, or k slow servers each of speed 1/k?" Our settin...
Adam Wierman, Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter...
We consider a novel class of applications where a set of activities conducted by a group of people over a time period needs to be planned, taking into account each member's p...
ed Abstract Ontologies play an important role in inter-agent communication, by providing the definitions of the vocabularies used by agents to describe the world [4]. An agent can ...
The goal of this paper is to model an agent who dislikes large choice sets because of the “cost of thinking” involved in choosing from them. We take as a primitive a preferenc...