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2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
BnB-ADOPT: an asynchronous branch-and-bound DCOP algorithm
Distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOPs) are a popular way of formulating and solving agent-coordination problems. It is often desirable to solve DCOPs optimally with m...
William Yeoh, Ariel Felner, Sven Koenig
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Characterizing effective auction mechanisms: insights from the 2007 TAC market design competition
This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 TAC Market Design competition. It presents a classification of the entries to the competition, and uses this classification to compare...
Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerdi...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Verifying time, memory and communication bounds in systems of reasoning agents
We present a framework for verifying systems composed of heterogeneous reasoning agents, in which each agent may have differing knowledge and inferential capabilities, and where t...
Natasha Alechina, Brian Logan, Nguyen Hoang Nga, A...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Coordination of first responders under communication and resource constraints
This paper discusses the application of distributed constraint optimization to coordination in disaster management situations under sub-optimal network conditions. It presents an ...
Robert N. Lass, Joseph B. Kopena, Evan Sultanik, D...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Modeling and managing collective cognitive convergence
When the same set of people interact frequently with one another, they grow to think more and more along the same lines, a phenomenon we call "collective cognitive convergenc...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Rainer H...