— This paper reverse-engineers backoff-based random-access MAC protocols in ad-hoc networks. We show that the contention resolution algorithm in such protocols is implicitly part...
Jang-Won Lee, Ao Tang, Jianwei Huang, Mung Chiang,...
In this paper, we discuss the use of Targeted Trajectory Distribution Markov Decision Processes (TTD-MDPs)—a variant of MDPs in which the goal is to realize a specified distrib...
Sooraj Bhat, David L. Roberts, Mark J. Nelson, Cha...
This paper takes an economic approach to derive an evolutionary learning model based entirely on the endogenous employment of genetic operators in the service of self-interested a...
In the arena of automated negotiations we focus on the principal negotiation protocol in bilateral settings, i.e. the alternatingoffers protocol. In the scientific community it is...
Advances in hardware have enabled many long-running applications to execute entirely in main memory. As a result, these applications have increasingly turned to database technique...
Tuan Cao, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Benjamin Sowe...