The aggregation of individuals’ preferences into a single group outcome is both well-studied and fundamental within decision theory. Historically, though, a pervasive simplifica...
Competent Genetic Algorithms can efficiently address problems in which the linkage between variables is limited to a small order k. Problems with higher order dependencies can onl...
Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens
There is need for more formal specification of recognition tasks. Currently, it is common to use labeled training samples to illustrate the task to be performed. The mathematical ...
Richard Zanibbi, Dorothea Blostein, James R. Cordy
The existence of a language expressing precisely the PTIME queries on arbitrary structures remains the central open problem in the theory of database query languages. As it turns o...
In this paper, we argue that allowing self-interested agents to activate social institutions during run-time can improve the robustness (i.e., stability, cooperation or fairness) ...