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2007
Springer
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Selfish-brain Theory: Challenges in the Top-down Analysis of Metabolic Supply Chains
The Selfish-brain theory has created the theoretical basis for the systemic analysis of the energy metabolism in terms of a supply chain. The energy in form of glucose equivalents...
Dirk Langemann
AAMAS
2010
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Evolutionary mechanism design: a review
Abstract The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of al...
Steve Phelps, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
FLOPS
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A Computational Approach to Pocklington Certificates in Type Theory
Pocklington certificates are known to provide short proofs of primality. We show how to perform this in the framework of formal, mechanically checked, proofs. We present an encodin...
Benjamin Grégoire, Laurent Théry, Be...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
No-regret learning and a mechanism for distributed multiagent planning
We develop a novel mechanism for coordinated, distributed multiagent planning. We consider problems stated as a collection of single-agent planning problems coupled by common soft...
Jan-P. Calliess, Geoffrey J. Gordon