In order to optimize their revenues and profits, an increasing number of businesses organize their business activities in terms of business processes. Typically, they automate imp...
Marko Vrhovnik, Holger Schwarz, Oliver Suhre, Bern...
Argumentation allows agents to exchange additional information to argue about their beliefs and other mental attitudes during the negotiation process. Utterances and subsequent obs...
We present an optimal real-time scheduling algorithm for multiprocessors — one that satisfies all task deadlines, when the total utilization demand does not exceed the utilizat...
Hyeonjoong Cho, Binoy Ravindran, E. Douglas Jensen
We consider truthful online auctions that aim at optimizing sellers’ revenues, representing service contributors’ satisfactions, as a general model for pricing peer-to-peer se...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...