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ICALP
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Names Trump Malice: Tiny Mobile Agents Can Tolerate Byzantine Failures
Abstract. We introduce a new theoretical model of ad hoc mobile computing in which agents have severely restricted memory, highly unpredictable movement and no initial knowledge of...
Rachid Guerraoui, Eric Ruppert
ISWC
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
When Cyborgs Meet: Building Communities of Cooperating Wearable Agents
This paper introduces the notion of a Wearable Community as a group of wearable users who cooperate for their mutual benefit. In such a community, wearable computers act as person...
Gerd Kortuem, Jay Schneider, Jim Suruda, Stephen F...
AI
2006
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A Smart Home Agent for Plan Recognition
Assistance to people suffering from cognitive deficiencies in a smart home raises complex issues. Plan recognition is one of them. We propose a formal framework for the recognition...
Bruno Bouchard, Sylvain Giroux, Abdenour Bouzouane
AP2PC
2005
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
Optimizing an Incentives' Mechanism for Truthful Feedback in Virtual Communities
We analyze a mechanism that provides strong incentives for the submission of truthful feedback in virtual communities where services are exchanged on a peer-to-peer basis. Lying pe...
Thanasis G. Papaioannou, George D. Stamoulis
AIPS
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Criticality Metrics for Distributed Plan and Schedule Management
We address the problem of coordinating the plans and schedules for a team of agents in an uncertain and dynamic environment. Bounded rationality, bounded communication, subjectivi...
Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Pedro A. Szekely