We present a simple model of distributed multi-agent multi-issued contract negotiation for open systems where interactions are competitive and information is private and not shared...
Peyman Faratin, Mark Klein, Hiroki Sayama, Yaneer ...
Understanding the dynamics of knowledge diffusion has profound theoretical and practical implications across a wide variety of domains, ranging from scientific disciplines to educa...
Chaomei Chen, Weizhong Zhu, Brian M. Tomaszewski, ...
Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and...
Abstract. Terms which are not explicitly mentioned in the text of a document receive often a minor role in current retrieval systems. In this work we connect the management of such...
This paper is devoted to scheduling a large collection of independent tasks onto heterogeneous clusters. The tasks depend upon (input) files which initially reside on a master pro...