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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Searching social networks
A referral system is a multiagent system whose member agents are capable of giving and following referrals. The specific cases of interest arise where each agent has a user. The ...
Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh
DEBU
2010
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15 years 3 months ago
Provenance in ORCHESTRA
Sharing structured data today requires agreeing on a standard schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data to achieve a single queriable mediated instance. However, for setti...
Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Zachary G. ...
MST
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Simple Efficient Load-Balancing Algorithms for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Load balancing is a critical issue for the efficient operation of peerto-peer networks. We give two new load-balancing protocols whose provable performance guarantees are within a...
David R. Karger, Matthias Ruhl
ATAL
2007
Springer
16 years 22 days ago
The LOGIC negotiation model
Successful negotiators prepare by determining their position along five dimensions: Legitimacy, Options, Goals, Independence, and Commitment, (LOGIC). We introduce a negotiation ...
Carles Sierra, John K. Debenham
ADB
1994
311views Database» more  ADB 1994»
15 years 10 months ago
A Personal and Portable Database Server: the CQL Card
Database applications and technologies are of central importance in many information systems a person may encounter. To obtain services, the end-users are required a smart card (pl...
Pierre Paradinas, Jean-Jacques Vandewalle