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ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling complex multi-issue negotiations using utility graphs
This paper presents an agent strategy for complex bilateral negotiations over many issues with inter-dependent valuations. We use ideas inspired by graph theory and probabilistic ...
Valentin Robu, D. J. A. Somefun, Johannes A. La Po...
ICMAS
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Leveled Commitment Contracting among Myopic Individually Rational Agents
In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...
Martin Andersson, Tuomas Sandholm
ICMAS
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Surplus Equivalence of Leveled Commitment Contracts
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Leveled commitment contracts--i.e., contracts where each party ca...
Tuomas Sandholm, Yunhong Zhou
ICCS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Automated Operation Minimization of Tensor Contraction Expressions in Electronic Structure Calculations
Abstract. Complex tensor contraction expressions arise in accurate electronic structure models in quantum chemistry, such as the Coupled Cluster method. Transformations using algeb...
Albert Hartono, Alexander Sibiryakov, Marcel Nooij...
PODC
1998
ACM
14 years 22 hour ago
Optimal Efficiency of Optimistic Contract Signing
A contract is a non-repudiable agreement on a given contract text, i.e., a contract can be used to prove agreement between its signatories to any verifier. A contract signing sche...
Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidn...