One way for agents to reach a joint decision is to vote over the alternatives. In open, anonymous settings such as the Internet, an agent can vote more than once without being det...
Due to its important practical applications, temporal planning is of great research interest in artificial intelligence. Yet most of the work in this area so far is limited in at...
Children do not learn the meanings of words from parsing and understanding gigabytes of text; instead meanings are learned from competent speakers who relate language to what'...
In a (r, n)-threshold secret sharing scheme, no group of (r - 1) colluding members can recover the secret value s. However, the number of colluders is likely to increase over time...
This paper describes a sound technique that combines the precision em proving with the loop-invariant inference of abstract interpretation. The loop-invariant computations are invo...