Combinatorial auctions are important as they enable bidders to place bids on combinations of items; compared to other auction mechanisms, they often increase the efficiency of the...
This paper describes an environment for supporting very large ontologies. The system can be used on single PCs, workstations, a cluster of workstations, and high-end parallel supe...
Kilian Stoffel, Merwyn G. Taylor, James A. Hendler
Clusters of workstations are becoming popular platforms for parallel computing, but performance on these systems is more complex and harder to predict than on traditional parallel...
Geetanjali Sampemane, Scott Pakin, Andrew A. Chien
Our main motivation is to build general and adaptable linguistic tools and we have faced the problem of their portability. We first make a quick description of the linguistic tool...
Multi-agent systems (MASs), comprised of autonomous entities with the aim to cooperate to reach a common goal, may be viewed as computational models of distributed complex systems ...