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A variant thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) with slower migration on isoelectric focusing (TBG-S) has been found in some American Blacks. It is inherited as an X-chromosome-linked trait. Hemizygous males with T...
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We study the dynamics of forming coalitions of self-interested autonomous buyer agents, for the purpose of obtaining a volume discount. In our model, agents, representing coalitions of various sizes, may choos...
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The concept of sequential two-sided search is widely used in partnerships formation applications in various domains. However, when considering the implementation of the method in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), one...
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In this paper we address a model of self interested information agents competing to perform tasks. The agents are situated in an uncertain environment while different tasks dynamically arrive from a central ma...
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In many two-sided search applications, autonomous agents can enjoy the advantage of parallel search, powered by their ability to handle an enormous amount of information, in a short time, and the capability to...
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In this paper we investigate the effect of mediated partnerships over agents’ equilibrium strategies in two-sided economic search. A mediated partnership is formed when an agent acts as a mediator, establishing a...
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AAMAS Workshop, AMEC 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009, and IJCAI Workshop, TADA 2009, Pasadena, CA, USA, July 13, 2009, Selected and Revised Papers
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This paper investigates auction settings where bidders private values depend on a common value element which encapsulates some inherent uncertainty concerning its value. In particular, we are interested in sce...
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This paper investigates cooperative search strategies for agents engaged in costly search in a complex environment. Searching cooperatively, several search goals can be satisfied within a single search effort....
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In this paper we study the benefits of search costs in distributed multi-agent systems (MAS). These costs, often associated with obtaining, processing and evaluating information relating to other agents in the...
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The paper focuses on mining clusters that are characterized by a lagged relationship between the data objects. We call such clusters lagged co-clusters. A lagged co-cluster of a matrix is a submatrix determined b...
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This paper addresses the problem of computing the value of information in settings in which the people using an autonomous-agent system have access to information not directly available to the system itself. T...
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A typical mining problem is the extraction of patterns from subspaces of multidimensional data. Such patterns, known as a biclusters, comprise subsets of objects that behave similarly across subsets of attribu...
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In highly dynamic mobile ad hoc networks, new paths between nodes can become available in a short amount of time. We show how to leverage this property in order to efficiently search for paths between nodes us...
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Information purchasing is a crucial issue that auctioneers have to consider when running auctions, in particular in auction settings where the auctioned item’s value is affected by a common value element. In s...
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We consider settings were agents are faced with several possible opportunities and need to choose one. Each opportunity may offer a different utility to the agent, and determining this utility may consume reso...
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This paper pertains to distributed deadlock resolution in settings populated with self-interested bounded-rational autonomous agents. In particular it reports the results of extensive experimentation with 66 a...
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This paper proposes the use of restructuring information about choices to improve the performance of computer agents on recurring sequentially dependent decisions. The intended situations of use for the restru...
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In this paper we study distributed agent matching in environments characterized by uncertain signals, costly exploration, and the presence of an information broker. Each agent receives information about the po...
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The paper focuses on mining patterns that are characterized by a fuzzy lagged relationship between the data objects forming them. Such a regulatory mechanism is quite common in real-life settings. It appears in a...
