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INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the Market Power of Network Coding in P2P Content Distribution Systems
Abstract—Network coding is emerging as a promising alternative to traditional content distribution approaches in P2P networks. By allowing information mixture in peers, it simpli...
Xinyu Zhang, Baochun Li
WINE
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Easy and hard coalition resource game formation problems: a parameterized complexity analysis
Coalition formation is a key topic in multi–agent systems (mas). Coalitions enable agents to achieve goals that they may not have been able to achieve independently, and encoura...
Tammar Shrot, Yonatan Aumann, Sarit Kraus
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Reward shaping for valuing communications during multi-agent coordination
Decentralised coordination in multi-agent systems is typically achieved using communication. However, in many cases, communication is expensive to utilise because there is limited...
Simon A. Williamson, Enrico H. Gerding, Nicholas R...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Cache Inference Problem and its Application to Content and Request Routing
— In many networked applications, independent caching agents cooperate by servicing each other’s miss streams, without revealing the operational details of the caching mechanis...
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Zervas, Azer Bestavro...