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ATAL
2005
Springer
16 years 29 days ago
Modeling exceptions via commitment protocols
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
Ashok U. Mallya, Munindar P. Singh
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Resource limitations, transmission costs and critical thresholds in scale-free networks
Whether or not a critical threshold exists when epidemic diseases are spread in complex networks is a problem attracting attention from researchers in several disciplines. In 2001...
Chung-Yuan Huang, Chuen-Tsai Sun, Chia-Ying Cheng,...
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ASSETS
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Toward Goldilocks' pointing device: determining a "just right" gain setting for users with physical impairments
We designed and evaluated an agent that recommends a pointing device gain for a given user, with mixed success. 12 participants with physical impairments used the Input Device Age...
Heidi Horstmann Koester, Edmund F. LoPresti, Richa...
PAMI
2007
186views more  PAMI 2007»
15 years 7 months ago
Value-Directed Human Behavior Analysis from Video Using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
—This paper presents a method for learning decision theoretic models of human behaviors from video data. Our system learns relationships between the movements of a person, the co...
Jesse Hoey, James J. Little