US military forces now face asymmetric military operations. Management of relationships with civilians is often crucial to success. Local population groups can provide critical in...
Combinatorial auctions, where buyers can bid on bundles of items rather than bidding them sequentially, often lead to more economically efficient allocations of financial resource...
Both semantic web applications and individuals are in need of knowledge infrastructures that can be used in dynamic and distributed environments where different autonomous entities...
Information sharing can be effective with structured data. However, there are several challenges for having structured data on the web. Creating structured concept definitions is ...
Distributed allocation mechanisms rely on the agents' autonomous (and supposedly rational) behaviour: states evolve as a result of agents contracting deals and exchanging res...