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ICC
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Distributed Minimum-Cost Clustering Protocol for UnderWater Sensor Networks (UWSNs)
—In this paper, we study the node clustering problem in UnderWater Sensor Networks (UWSNs). We formulate the problem into a cluster-centric cost-based optimization problem with a...
Pu Wang, Cheng Li, Jun Zheng
PODC
1999
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Optimal, Distributed Decision-Making: The Case of no Communication
We present a combinatorial framework for the study of a natural class of distributed optimization problems that involve decisionmaking by a collection of n distributed agents in th...
Marios Mavronicolas, Paul G. Spirakis
AIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Linear Relaxation Techniques for Task Management in Uncertain Settings
In this paper, we consider the problem of assisting a busy user in managing her workload of pending tasks. We assume that our user is typically oversubscribed, and is invariably j...
Pradeep Varakantham, Stephen F. Smith
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A distributed algorithm for anytime coalition structure generation
A major research challenge in multi-agent systems is the problem of partitioning a set of agents into mutually disjoint coalitions, such that the overall performance of the system...
Tomasz P. Michalak, Jacek Sroka, Talal Rahwan, Mic...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Dependability in Aggregation by Averaging
Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
Paulo Jesus, Carlos Baquero, Paulo Sérgio A...