To make a joint decision, agents (or voters) are often required to provide their preferences as linear orders. To determine a winner, the given linear orders can be aggregated acc...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
—Although policy compliance testing is generally treated as a binary decision problem, the evidence gathered during the trust management process can actually be used to examine t...
Researchers in the field of multiagent sequential decision making have commonly used the terms “weakly-coupled” and “loosely-coupled” to qualitatively classify problems i...
Security software is often difficult to use thus leading to poor adoption and degraded security. This paper describes a usability study that was conducted on the software ‘Polar...