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2000
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
MAS Infrastructure: Definitions, Needs and Prospects
This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
Les Gasser
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
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Resource limitations, transmission costs and critical thresholds in scale-free networks
Whether or not a critical threshold exists when epidemic diseases are spread in complex networks is a problem attracting attention from researchers in several disciplines. In 2001...
Chung-Yuan Huang, Chuen-Tsai Sun, Chia-Ying Cheng,...
SODA
2008
ACM
108views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Price based protocols for fair resource allocation: convergence time analysis and extension to Leontief utilities
We analyze several distributed, continuous time protocols for a fair allocation of bandwidths to flows in a network (or resources to agents). Our protocols converge to an allocati...
Ashish Goel, Hamid Nazerzadeh
AAAI
2006
15 years 8 months ago
Identification and Evaluation of Weak Community Structures in Networks
Identifying intrinsic structures in large networks is a fundamental problem in many fields, such as engineering, social science and biology. In this paper, we are concerned with c...
Jianhua Ruan, Weixiong Zhang