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IJCAI
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Automated Design of Multistage Mechanisms
Mechanism design is the study of preference aggregation protocols that work well in the face of self-interested agents. We present the first general-purpose techniques for automa...
Tuomas Sandholm, Vincent Conitzer, Craig Boutilier
ICEIS
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Multi-Level Architecture for Distributed Object Bases
Abstract: The work described in this article arises from two needs. First, there is still a need for providing more sophisticated database systems than just relational ones. Second...
Markus Kirchberg, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Alexei Tret...
CASCON
1996
113views Education» more  CASCON 1996»
15 years 7 months ago
Network management views using delegated agents
The lack of an appropriate external data model is one of the reasons for the dearth of eective network management applications. Many network management computations over Managemen...
Germán S. Goldszmidt
IFIP
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Mobile agent technology in support of sales order processing in the virtual enterprise
The flexible integration of a range of disparate IT applications is a key requirement for today's global enterprises. The virtual enterprise, formed by a collection of collab...
Todd Papaioannou, John Edwards
ML
1998
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Learning to Improve Coordinated Actions in Cooperative Distributed Problem-Solving Environments
Abstract. Coordination is an essential technique in cooperative, distributed multiagent systems. However, sophisticated coordination strategies are not always cost-effective in all...
Toshiharu Sugawara, Victor R. Lesser