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AIPS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Economically Augmented Job Shop Scheduling
We present economically augmented job shop scheduling (EJSP) as an example of a coordination problem among selfinterested agents with private information. We discuss its signific...
Wolfram Conen
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Powerful Direct Mechanism for Optimal WWW Content Replication
This paper addresses the problem of fine-grained data replication in large distributed systems, such as the Internet, so as to minimize the user access delays. With fine-grained d...
Samee Ullah Khan, Ishfaq Ahmad
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Truthful Two-Stage Mechanism for Eliciting Probabilistic Estimates with Unknown Costs
This paper reports on the design of a novel two-stage mechanism, based on strictly proper scoring rules, that motivates selfish rational agents to make a costly probabilistic estim...
Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Alex Rogers, Enrico H...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Automated negotiation with decommitment for dynamic resource allocation in cloud computing
We consider the problem of allocating networked resources in dynamic environment, such as cloud computing platforms, where providers strategically price resources to maximize thei...
Bo An, Victor R. Lesser, David Irwin, Michael Zink
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
No-regret learning and a mechanism for distributed multiagent planning
We develop a novel mechanism for coordinated, distributed multiagent planning. We consider problems stated as a collection of single-agent planning problems coupled by common soft...
Jan-P. Calliess, Geoffrey J. Gordon