In many practical scenarios, users are faced with the problem of choosing the most preferred outcome from a large set of possibilities. As people are unable to sift through them m...
Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu, Marc Torrens, Paolo Viappi...
This paper unifies two recent strands of research in multiagent system design. One, commitments are widely recognized as capturing important aspects of interactions among agents,...
The paper addresses the formal specification, design and implementation of the behavioral component of graphical user interfaces. The complex sequences of visual events and action...
Jean Berstel, Stefano Crespi-Reghizzi, Gilles Rous...
In this paper, we give the first constant-approximations for a number of layered network design problems. We begin by modeling hierarchical caching, where caches are placed in la...
In this paper, we study the important issues in the design of an efficient WIreless real-time visual SurveillancE System (WISES). Two important considerations are to minimize: (1)...