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HICSS
2007
IEEE
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Protecting with Sensor Networks: Attention and Response
Sensor networks are expected to play an important role in hybrid protection infrastructures when combined with robots and human decision makers. In order to be effective, detectio...
Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Stephan Olariu
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ICALP
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Strong Price of Anarchy for Machine Load Balancing
As defined by Aumann in 1959, a strong equilibrium is a Nash equilibrium that is resilient to deviations by coalitions. We give tight bounds on the strong price of anarchy for loa...
Amos Fiat, Haim Kaplan, Meital Levy, Svetlana Olon...
ECAL
2005
Springer
16 years 17 days ago
All Else Being Equal Be Empowered
The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from the anim...
Alexander S. Klyubin, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L...
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ICALP
2004
Springer
16 years 13 days ago
Coordination Mechanisms
Abstract. We introduce the notion of coordination mechanisms to improve the performance in systems with independent selfish and noncolluding agents. The quality of a coordination ...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Akash Nan...
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HICSS
2003
IEEE
207views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
16 years 10 days ago
Multi-Agent Systems and Microeconomic Theory: A Negotiation Approach to Solve Scheduling Problems in High Dynamic Environments
Microeconomics offer a far developed theory on the subject of rational choice. This theory is applied to a multi-agent system, which has been modeled in order to establish schedul...
Hans Czap, Marc Becker