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ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 3 months ago
Agent-based Coordination Mechanisms in Smart Electricity Markets
Electric Vehicles (EVs) and their integration in the smart grid are challenges that sustainable societies have to tackle. Uncontrolled EV charging increases peak power demand, whi...
Konstantina Valogianni
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 3 months ago
Welfare Effects of Market Making in Continuous Double Auctions
We investigate the effects of market making on market performance, focusing on allocative efficiency as well as gains from trade accrued by background traders. We employ empirica...
Elaine Wah, Michael P. Wellman
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 3 months ago
Learning By Observation Using Qualitative Spatial Relations
We present an approach to the problem of learning by observation in spatially-situated tasks, whereby an agent learns to imitate the behaviour of an observed expert with no intera...
Jay Young, Nick Hawes
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 3 months ago
How to Form a Task-Oriented Robust Team
How to form a team for achieving a given set of tasks is an important issue in multi-agent systems. Task-oriented team formation is the problem of selecting a group of agents, whe...
Tenda Okimoto, Nicolas Schwind, Maxime Clement, To...
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 3 months ago
A Self-Organizing Virtual Environment for Agent-Based Simulations
In this paper we present a self-organizing model for open virtual environments in multi-agent based simulation systems. Open environments are inaccessible, non-deterministic, dyna...
Mohammad Al-Zinati, Rym Wenkstern
PODS
2015
ACM
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On Top-k Range Reporting in 2D Space
Saladi Rahul, Yufei Tao
PODS
2015
ACM
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High-Level Why-Not Explanations using Ontologies
Balder ten Cate, Cristina Civili, Evgeny Sherkhono...
PODS
2015
ACM
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Chase Termination for Guarded Existential Rules
Abstract. The chase procedure is considered as one of the most fundamental algorithmic tools in database theory. It has been successfully applied to different database problems suc...
Marco Calautti, Georg Gottlob, Andreas Pieris
PODS
2015
ACM
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The Data Complexity of Consistent Query Answering for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries Under Primary Key Constraints
A relational database is said to be uncertain if primary key constraints can possibly be violated. A repair (or possible world) of an uncertain database is obtained by selecting a...
Paraschos Koutris, Jef Wijsen