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SIGECOM
2004
ACM
96views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
16 years 1 days ago
Expressive negotiation over donations to charities
When donating money to a (say, charitable) cause, it is possible to use the contemplated donation as negotiating material to induce other parties interested in the charity to dona...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Cooperative negotiation for soft real-time distributed resource allocation
In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...
Roger Mailler, Victor R. Lesser, Bryan Horling
CDC
2009
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Resource allocation for signal detection with active sensors
— We consider the problem of determining the existence of known constant signals over a set of sites, given noisy measurements obtained by a team of active sensors that can switc...
Jerome Le Ny, Michael M. Zavlanos, George J. Pappa...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Self-interested database managers playing the view maintenance game
A database view is a dynamic virtual table composed of the result set of a query, often executed over different underlying databases. The view maintenance problem concerns how a v...
Hala Mostafa, Victor R. Lesser, Gerome Miklau
FLAIRS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
CSAA: A Distributed Ant Algorithm Framework for Constraint Satisfaction
In this paper the distributed Constraint Satisfaction Ant Algorithm (CSAA) framework is presented. It uses an ant-based system for the distributed solving of constraint satisfacti...
Koenraad Mertens, Tom Holvoet