An introduction to multiagent systems - part 3 docx

... 2 m/2+1 to express in the OR-of-XOR language. It is also possible to define a language of XOR-of-OR bids, and even a lan- guage allowing arbitrary nesting of OR and XOR statements here (we refer to the ... but not the other, and vice-versa. Third, the OR* language is strictly more expressive than both the OR-of-XOR and XOR-of-OR languages: it can efficiently simulate both languages, and su...

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... mechanism is that it is a dominant- strategy solution to the quasi-linear problem: Theorem 7.2 .3 Given a quasi-linear mechanism design problem M, the VCG mechanism for M is a direct dominant-strategy ... max o∈O u i (o). 7.2 .3 A Positive Result: The Vickrey-Clarke-Groves Mechanism If we are to design a truthful mechanism that is not dictatorial, we are going to have to relax some...

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... they pay, and their bids can mention only price and (in the case of multi-unit auctions) quantity. The best known one-sided, single-dimensional auction families are the En- glish auction and the ... m + 1-price auction, which play the roles analogous to first- and second- price auctions in the single-unit case. Here too there are issues of tie breaking, which are dealt with similarly to th...

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... ranging from relatively inexpensive, black-and-white scanners to full-color, microprocessor-based systems. Many of the less expensive units are designed strictly as scanners and cannot store and ... between 15 and 20 percent lower than no-load. 5 .3. 2 Fans Fans have many different industrial applications and designs vary; however, all fans fall into two major categories: centerline and c...

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... manufac- tured to close tolerances and set against the primary standard are available through many test and calibration laboratories and often in industrial and university tool rooms and research laboratories. ... operation and the fact that balancing operations are almost always performed by specially trained people at the manufacturer’s plant. 37 0 An Introduction to Predictive Mai...

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... successful end-of- transaction. Any updates made to the database by the transaction in question are now "made permanent" and become visible to other transactions. Copyright (c) 20 03 C. ... example (viz., suppliers, parts, and projects). Subsequent chapters tend to use suppliers-and-parts as a basis for the main body of the text and suppliers, parts, and projects as a...

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... * 3 * 2 * 1 = 36 possibilities Ri-Rj-Up-Rk-Uq-Ur : 3 * 2 * 2 * 1 * 2 * 1 = 24 possibilities Ri-Rj-Up-Uq-Rk-Ur : 3 * 2 * 2 * 1 * 1 * 1 = 12 possibilities Ri-Up-Rj-Rk-Uq-Ur : 3 * 1 * 2 * 1 * ... schedule R1-R3-U1-U3-R2-U2 is serializable (it's equivalent to the serial schedule T1-T 3- T2), but it cannot be produced if T1, T2, and T3 all obey the two-phase locking protoco...

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... directly relevant to the topics at hand. (End quote) The fact is, given the widespread availability and use of database systems today (on desktop and laptop computers in particular), many people ... I : Preliminaries 1. An Overview of Database Management 2. Database System Architecture 3. An Introduction to Relational Databases 4. An Introduction to SQL Par...

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... deliberate, and so is the lack of reference to the ACID acronym.) Superficial!──this is just an introduction. Forward references to Chapters 15 and 16. 3. 9 The Suppliers-and-Parts DB ... combination of a DC manager and a DBMS, in which the DBMS looks after the database and the DC manager handles all messages to and from the DBMS (or, more accurately, to and from appl...

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