Sciweavers

972 search results - page 159 / 195
» Using Preference Order in Ontologies
Sort
View
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Altruism and agents: an argumentation based approach to designing agent decision mechanisms
We present an argument-based qualitative decision-making framework in which the social values promoted or demoted by alternative action-options are explicitly represented. We show...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson, Peter Mc...
OTM
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
CLON: Overlay Networks and Gossip Protocols for Cloud Environments
Although epidemic or gossip-based multicast is a robust and scalable approach to reliable data dissemination, its inherent redundancy results in high resource consumption on both ...
Miguel Matos, António Sousa, José Pe...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
108views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Should Online Auctions Employ Dynamic Buyout Pricing Models?
Online auctions are inherently dynamic. Online auction designs that internalize temporal changes in the economic environment are generally expected to perform better than static d...
Roumen Vragov, Di Shang, Karl Reiner Lang
WIMOB
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On the Energy Cost of Communication and Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks
Energy is a central concern in the deployment of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we investigate the energy cost of cryptographic protocols, both from a communication and ...
Giacomo de Meulenaer, François Gosset, Fran...
AIMSA
2008
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Tailoring the Interpretation of Spatial Utterances for Playing a Board Game
In order to build an intelligent system that allows human beings to cooperate with a computing machine to perform a given task it is important to account for the individual charact...
Andrea Corradini