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CDC
2009
IEEE
173views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Sequentially updated Probability Collectives
— Multi-agent coordination problems can be cast as distributed optimization tasks. Probability Collectives (PCs) are techniques that deal with such problems in discrete and conti...
Michalis Smyrnakis, David S. Leslie
VLDB
1992
ACM
151views Database» more  VLDB 1992»
15 years 10 months ago
A Uniform Approach to Processing Temporal Queries
Research in temporal databases has mainly focused on defining temporal data models by extending existing models, and developing access structures for temporal data. Little has bee...
Umeshwar Dayal, Gene T. J. Wuu
CPAIOR
2006
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Conflict-Directed A* Search for Soft Constraints
As many real-world problems involve user preferences, costs, or probabilities, constraint satisfaction has been extended to optimization by generalizing hard constraints to soft co...
Martin Sachenbacher, Brian C. Williams
IJCAI
2007
15 years 8 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
AAMAS
2010
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Multi-goal economic search using dynamic search structures
This paper investigates cooperative search strategies for agents engaged in costly search in a complex environment. Searching cooperatively, several search goals can be satisfied w...
David Sarne, Efrat Manisterski, Sarit Kraus