In this paper a distributed algorithm for clock synchronization is proposed. This algorithm is based on an extension of the consensus algorithm able to synchronize a family of dou...
Abstract. With the increasing globalization of economy and consequent increasing in the inter and intra organizational competitiveness, the role of groups in organizations and busi...
This paper presents ways of approaching the design of successful character-based interactive installations. We rationalize our arguments within the context of both Disney's &...
We present a user requirements study for Question Answering on meeting records that assesses the difficulty of users questions in terms of what type of knowledge is required in or...
This paper addresses the application of distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOPs) to large-scale dynamic environments. We introduce a decomposition of DCOP into a graph...
Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Jonathan P. Pearce, Milind Ta...