WOA
2001
14 years 24 days ago
2001
Negotiation is a fundamental mechanism in distributed multi-agent systems. Since negotiation is a time-spending process, in many scenarios agents have to take into account the pas...
UAI
2004
14 years 24 days ago
2004
Mechanism design has found considerable application to the construction of agent-interaction protocols. In the standard setting, the type (e.g., utility function) of an agent is n...
IJCAI
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
Utility elicitation is a critical function of any automated decision aid, allowing decisions to be tailored to the preferences of a specific user. However, the size and complexit...
AAAI
2006
14 years 26 days ago
2006
We introduce CUI networks, a compact graphical representation of utility functions over multiple attributes. CUI networks model multiattribute utility functions using the well stu...
AGI
2008
14 years 27 days ago
2008
One might imagine that AI systems with harmless goals will be harmless. This paper instead shows that intelligent systems will need to be carefully designed to prevent them from be...
DELTA
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
In this report we address the problem of static scheduling of realtime systems that include both hard and soft tasks. We consider systems in which both hard and soft tasks are per...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
Multiagent resource allocation is a timely and exciting area of research at the interface of Computer Science and Economics. One of the main challenges in this area is the high co...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
We analyze the complexity of computing pure strategy Nash equilibria (PSNE) in symmetric games with a fixed number of actions. We restrict ourselves to “compact” representati...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
— This paper describes decentralized control laws for the coordination of multiple vehicles performing spatially distributed tasks. The control laws are based on a gradient desce...
CCGRID
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents a performance analysis of marketbased batch schedulers for clusters of workstations. In contrast to previous work, we use user-centric performance metrics as t...