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WECWIS
2005
IEEE
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15 years 9 months ago
An Adaptive Bilateral Negotiation Model for E-Commerce Settings
This paper studies adaptive bilateral negotiation between software agents in e-commerce environments. Specifically, we assume that the agents are self-interested, the environment...
Vidya Narayanan, Nicholas R. Jennings
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Checking correctness of business contracts via commitments
Business contracts tend to be complex. In current practice, contracts are often designed by hand and adopted by their participants after, at best, a manual analysis. This paper mo...
Nirmit Desai, Nanjangud C. Narendra, Munindar P. S...
IJCAI
2007
15 years 5 months ago
Using Linear Programming for Bayesian Exploration in Markov Decision Processes
A key problem in reinforcement learning is finding a good balance between the need to explore the environment and the need to gain rewards by exploiting existing knowledge. Much ...
Pablo Samuel Castro, Doina Precup
AAAI
1996
15 years 5 months ago
Computing Optimal Policies for Partially Observable Decision Processes Using Compact Representations
: Partially-observable Markov decision processes provide a very general model for decision-theoretic planning problems, allowing the trade-offs between various courses of actions t...
Craig Boutilier, David Poole
FAC
2008
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15 years 3 months ago
A functional formalization of on chip communications
This paper presents a formal model and a systematic approach to the validation of communication tures at a high level of abstraction. This model is described mathematically by a fu...
Julien Schmaltz, Dominique Borrione