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ICPP
2008
IEEE
16 years 29 days ago
An Incentive-Compatible Mechanism for Scheduling Non-Malleable Parallel Jobs with Individual Deadlines
We design an incentive-compatible mechanism for scheduling n non-malleable parallel jobs on a parallel system comprising m identical processors. Each job is owned by a selfish us...
Thomas E. Carroll, Daniel Grosu
ATAL
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Stable and Feasible Payoff Division for Coalition Formation in a Class of Task Oriented Domains
In the last few years the use of coalition formation algorithms in multi-agent systems has been proposed as a possible way of modelling autonomous agent cooperation. Game theory pr...
María-Victoria Belmonte, Ricardo Conejo, Jo...
IH
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
The Strong Eternity Service
Strong Eternity Service is a safe and very reliable storage for data of high importance. We show how to establish persistent pseudonyms in a totally anonymous environment and how t...
Tonda Benes
WER
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Requirements Elicitation Using a Combination of Prototypes and Scenarios
A survey of different types of prototypes and current prototyping methods is presented. Especially the usage of prototypes with use cases and scenarios is investigated, and an appr...
Markus Mannio, Uolevi Nikula
ATAL
2004
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Anonymous Pricing of Efficient Allocations in Combinatorial Economies
Auctions and exchanges are important coordination mechanisms for multiagent systems. Most multi-good markets are combinatorial in that the agents have preferences over bundles of ...
Wolfram Conen, Tuomas Sandholm