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ATAL
2007
Springer
16 years 20 days ago
Autonomous nondeterministic tour guides: improving quality of experience with TTD-MDPs
In this paper, we address the problem of building a system of autonomous agents for a complex environment, in our case, a museum with many visitors. Visitors may have varying pref...
Andrew S. Cantino, David L. Roberts, Charles L. Is...
ATAL
2007
Springer
16 years 20 days ago
Enacting protocols by commitment concession
Commitment protocols formalize interactions among autonomous, heterogeneous agents, leaving the agents’ local policies unspecified. This paper studies the problem of agents ena...
Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh
ATAL
2007
Springer
16 years 20 days ago
An equal excess negotiation algorithm for coalition formation
Coalition formation is an important form of interaction in multiagent systems. It enables the agents to satisfy tasks that they would otherwise be unable to perform, or would perf...
Hrishikesh J. Goradia, José M. Vidal
CRYPTO
2007
Springer
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16 years 19 days ago
Information Security Economics - and Beyond
The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fast-moving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from machines belonging to principals with div...
Ross Anderson, Tyler Moore
ER
2007
Springer
107views Database» more  ER 2007»
16 years 19 days ago
A Conceptual Framework to Support Semantic Interoperability of Geospatial Datacubes
Today, we observe a wide use of geospatial databases that are implemented in many forms (e.g. transactional centralized systems, distributed databases, multidimensional datacubes)....
Tarek Sboui, Yvan Bédard, Jean Brodeur, Thi...