This paper describes the results of applying a modified version of hierarchical task-network (HTN) planning to the problem of declarer play in contract bridge. We represent inform...
Stephen J. J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop
The requirement for ubiquitous service access in wireless environments presents a great challenge in light of well known problems like high error rate and frequent disconnections....
Vasileios Baousis, Vassilis Spiliopoulos, Elias Za...
In this paper, we describe a novel bidding strategy that autonomous trading agents can use to participate in Continuous Double Auctions (CDAs). Our strategy is based on both short...
Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Dave Cliff, Nicholas R. J...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
While sensor networks are going to be deployed in diverse application specific contexts, one unifying view is to treat them essentially as distributed databases. The simplest mech...