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SIGECOM
2004
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Expressive negotiation over donations to charities
When donating money to a (say, charitable) cause, it is possible to use the contemplated donation as negotiating material to induce other parties interested in the charity to dona...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Cooperative negotiation for soft real-time distributed resource allocation
In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...
Roger Mailler, Victor R. Lesser, Bryan Horling
CDC
2009
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Resource allocation for signal detection with active sensors
— We consider the problem of determining the existence of known constant signals over a set of sites, given noisy measurements obtained by a team of active sensors that can switc...
Jerome Le Ny, Michael M. Zavlanos, George J. Pappa...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Self-interested database managers playing the view maintenance game
A database view is a dynamic virtual table composed of the result set of a query, often executed over different underlying databases. The view maintenance problem concerns how a v...
Hala Mostafa, Victor R. Lesser, Gerome Miklau
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
CSAA: A Distributed Ant Algorithm Framework for Constraint Satisfaction
In this paper the distributed Constraint Satisfaction Ant Algorithm (CSAA) framework is presented. It uses an ant-based system for the distributed solving of constraint satisfacti...
Koenraad Mertens, Tom Holvoet