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Toward a theory of honesty and trust among communicating autonomous agents
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-09)
This article outlines, through a number of examples, a method that can be used by autonomous agents to decide among potential messages to send to other agents, without having to assume that a message must be truthful and ...
The nature of middle school learners' science content understandings with the use of on-line resources
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-03)
Early research on using the World Wide Web indicated that middle school students did not explore much and used Web tools naively. In response to these challenges, an on-line research engine, Artemis, was designed to provide ...
A family of supermodular Nash mechanisms implementing Lindahl allocations
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2002-06)
We present a family of mechanisms which implement Lindahl allocations in Nash equilibrium. With quasilinear utility functions this family of mechanisms are supermodular games, which implies that they converge to Nash ...
Promoting understanding of chemical representations: Students' use of a visualization tool in the classroom
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001-09)
Many students have difficulty learning symbolic and molecular representations of chemistry. This study investigated how students developed an understanding of chemical representations with the aid of a computer-based ...
Optional time-of-use pricing can be pareto superior or pareto inferior
(Elsevier, 1990-08)
Many public utilities offer a choice between time-of-use and flat rates. Two points are established: (1) optional TOU (time-of-use) schedules exist that Pareto dominate both mandatory flat and mandatory TOU rates; but, (2) ...
The optimal choice of privatizing state-owned enterprises: A political economic model
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-03)
We study the choices of two types of maximizing Public Servants over how far to carry privatization of industries and in what order to privatize. Two stylizations of the Public Servant's objectives are considered, a ...
Veto games: Spatial committees under unanimity rule
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-12)
There exists a large literature on two-person bargaining games and distribution games (or divide-the-dollar games) under simple majority rule, where in equilibrium a minimal winning coalition takes full advantage over ...
A contracting model for flexible distributed scheduling
(Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Science Publishers ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-08)
We are interested in building systems of autonomous agents that can automate routine information processing activities in human organizations. Computational infrastructures for cooperative work should contain embedded ...
A Formal Study of Distributed Meeting Scheduling
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-05)
Automating routine organizational tasks, such as meeting scheduling, requires a careful balance between the individual (respecting his or her privacy and personal preferences) and the organization (making efficient use of ...
Search reduction in hierarchical distributed problem solving
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-09)
Knoblock and Korf have determined that abstraction can reduce search at a single agent from exponential to linear complexity (Knoblock 1991; Korf 1987). We extend their results by showing how concurrent problem solving ...