The technology for building large knowledge bases (KBs) is yet to witness a breakthrough so that a KB can be constructed by the assembly of prefabricated knowledge components. Kno...
Vinay K. Chaudhri, Adam Farquhar, Richard Fikes, P...
Minimax-regret preference elicitation allows intelligent decisions to be made on behalf of people facing risky choices. Standard gamble queries, a vital tool in this type of prefe...
Algorithmic pricing is the computational problem that sellers (e.g., in supermarkets) face when trying to set prices for their items to maximize their profit in the presence of a ...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason D. Hartline, Robert Kleinberg
Predictable allocations of security resources such as police officers, canine units, or checkpoints are vulnerable to exploitation by attackers. Recent work has applied game-theo...
Christopher Kiekintveld, Manish Jain, Jason Tsai, ...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...