How to conduct automated business negotiation over the Internet is an important issue for agent research. In most bilateral negotiation models, two negotiation agents negotiate by...
Constraint satisfaction has been applied with great success in closed-world scenarios, where all options and constraints are known from the beginning and fixed. With the internet,...
: Motivated by the problem of out-of-shelf (OOS) in retail industry and the emergence of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology, this paper investigates the impact that t...
Given a large sparse graph, how can we find patterns and anomalies? Several important applications can be modeled as large sparse graphs, e.g., network traffic monitoring, resea...
The increasing popularity of social networks has initiated a fertile research area in information extraction and data mining. Although such analysis can facilitate better understan...