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ANOR
2008
66views more  ANOR 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Optimization problems involving collections of dependent objects
We describe a class of problems motivated by numerous real-world applications where there is a collection of objects that have both a cost and a value, but where some of those obj...
David L. Roberts, Charles L. Isbell, Michael L. Li...
CDC
2008
IEEE
124views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
A proximal center-based decomposition method for multi-agent convex optimization
— In this paper we develop a new dual decomposition method for optimizing a sum of convex objective functions corresponding to multiple agents but with coupled constraints. In ou...
Ion Necoara, Johan A. K. Suykens
SAC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A decision-theoretic approach for designing proactive communication in multi-agent teamwork
Techniques that support effective communication during teamwork processes are of particular importance. Psychological study shows that an effective team often can anticipate infor...
Yu Zhang, Richard A. Volz, Thomas R. Ioerger, John...
ACMICEC
2006
ACM
111views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2006»
14 years 13 days ago
Passive verification of the strategyproofness of mechanisms in open environments
Consider an open infrastructure in which anyone can deploy mechanisms to support automated decision making and coordination amongst self-interested computational agents. Strategyp...
Laura Kang, David C. Parkes
PAKDD
2005
ACM
160views Data Mining» more  PAKDD 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Mining Quality by Exploiting Data Dependency
The usefulness of the results produced by data mining methods can be critically impaired by several factors such as (1) low quality of data, including errors due to contamination, ...
Fang Chu, Yizhou Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Douglas Stot...