Spacial-temporal clustering

I think that idea is actually a field.  Specifically spacial-temporal clustering.  There are a lot of highly cited papers in this field.  Also, it seems like it sort of tapered off in the mid-2000s.  I don’t see any mention of it being applied to a multiagent system other than for cars.

Fun problem

David had an idea for a problem: Given N individuals, each individual must, say, play a game with M other individuals.  The length of the game is stochastic and dependent on who is playing the game.  Describe an algorithm that will optimally group the individuals such that each individual has to wait the minimum amount… Continue reading Fun problem

AAAI and AAMAS proceedings

http://www.aaai.org/Library/AAAI/aaai-library.php took me forever to find this and this http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI14/search.  Very valuable.   Then we have AAMAS proceedings: http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE146&tab=pubs&CFID=454223637&CFTOKEN=11498247.

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Adaptive Auctions

I found my idea that I had for the adaptive auctions.  This isn’t the full general case of negotiation, but it is a start.  http://www.sigecom.org/exchanges/volume_5/5.3-Pardoe.pdf  And its by Peter Stone :).

Braille with ultrasound

So, 2 ideas 1. use that ultrasound based display to act as a braille display, so blind people could use it as a way to read and interact with the device. Then the other idea is to have a smartphone app that converts pictures of braille into english alphabet words…  I think computer vision would… Continue reading Braille with ultrasound

Satellites and houses

This is cool.  He discusses the concept of contracting and subcontracting for building houses and puts it into the perspective of sattelites and task allocation.   http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/339034/1.hasCoversheetVersion/jvdhorst_thesis.pdf

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Roots of Branching Processes

In branching processes you can find the probability of the system going extinct by finding the roots of the polynomial where the coefficients are the probabilities and the exponents are the number generated.  The smallest root between 0 and 1 will be the answer.  What do the other roots mean?  Basically the root corresponds to… Continue reading Roots of Branching Processes

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