Algorithms and mechanisms for procuring services with uncertain durations using redundancy

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 175, Issue 14-15, 2011, Pages 2021-2060

  Stein, S ^a   Gerding, E H ^a   Rogers, A C ^a   Larson, K ^b   Jennings, N R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mechanism design; Multi agent systems; Redundancy; Service oriented computing; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BRANCH AND BOUNDS; COMPUTATIONAL TASK; CONSUMER AGENTS; DECISION-THEORETIC; DISTRIBUTED SERVICE; EXPECTED UTILITY; INCENTIVE COMPATIBILITY; MECHANISM DESIGN; NEAR-OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; OPTIMAL VARIANTS; PRIVATE INFORMATION; SERVICE EXECUTION; SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS; SERVICE PROVIDER; SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING; STATE OF THE ART; UNCERTAIN EXECUTION TIME; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MACHINE DESIGN; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REDUNDANCY; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 81155158427     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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