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2003
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
Quantifying and Improving the Availability of High-Performance Cluster-Based Internet Services
Cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to globally manage resources. However, in this paper we show that cooperation results in a substa...
Kiran Nagaraja, Neeraj Krishnan, Ricardo Bianchini...
TAPIA
2003
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
Firefighter command training virtual environment
The Firefighter Command Training Virtual Environment is being developed at Georgia Tech in collaboration with the Atlanta Fire Department. The VE allows the user to: navigate arou...
Tazama U. St. Julien, Christopher D. Shaw
VRML
2003
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
Implementation of a scripting language for VRML/X3D-based embodied agents
Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliëns, Cees T. Visser
ATAL
2003
Springer
16 years 8 days ago
Coordination in multiagent reinforcement learning: a Bayesian approach
Much emphasis in multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) research is placed on ensuring that MARL algorithms (eventually) converge to desirable equilibria. As in standard reinfor...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Craig Boutilier
ATAL
2003
Springer
16 years 8 days ago
Miscomputing ratio: social cost of selfish computing
Auctions are useful mechanism for allocating items (goods, tasks, resources, etc.) in multiagent systems. The bulk of auction theory assumes that the bidders’ valuations for ite...
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm