The organizational view on work systems focuses on the desired outcomes of work, while the emergent view focuses on how the work actually gets done. Often a gap exists between thes...
Bart-Jan van Putten, Virginia Dignum, Maarten Sier...
Distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOPs) are a popular way of formulating and solving agent-coordination problems. It is often desirable to solve DCOPs optimally with m...
We study principled methods for incorporating user utility into the selection of sponsored search ads. We describe variations of the GSP allocation/pricing mechanism that accommod...
When the same set of people interact frequently with one another, they grow to think more and more along the same lines, a phenomenon we call "collective cognitive convergenc...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Rainer H...
Since there is no method to verify the trustworthiness of shared files in P2P file sharing systems, malicious peers can spread untrustworthy files to the system. In order to pre...