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WSC
2008
14 years 13 days ago
Smooth flexible models of nonhomogeneous poisson processes using one or more process realizations
We develop and evaluate a semiparametric method to estimate the mean-value function of a nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) using one or more process realizations observed over...
Michael E. Kuhl, Shalaka C. Deo, James R. Wilson
WSC
2008
14 years 13 days ago
Efficient tail estimation for sums of correlated lognormals
Our focus is on efficient estimation of tail probabilities of sums of correlated lognormals. This problem is motivated by the tail analysis of portfolios of assets driven by corre...
Jose Blanchet, Sandeep Juneja, Leonardo Rojas-Nand...
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Constructivism, virtual reality and tools to support design
This paper describes a process for creating a design tool, which is based in constructivism. The process is described for the creation of a tool to help novices in designing virtu...
Cara Winterbottom, Edwin H. Blake
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
The conclusion of contracts by software agents in the eyes of the law
Faced with the ongoing evolution of software agents from mere passive tools to e-tailers acting autonomously for their human owners (principals), new legal challenges appear on th...
Tina Balke, Torsten Eymann
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
Reaction functions for task allocation to cooperative agents
In this paper, we present ARF, our initial effort at solving taskallocation problems where cooperative agents need to perform tasks simultaneously. An example is multi-agent routi...
Xiaoming Zheng, Sven Koenig