Service-oriented Architectures support the provision, discovery, and usage of services in different application contexts. The Web Service specifications provide a technical founda...
Michael Menzel, Robert Warschofsky, Christoph Mein...
This paper introduces a new mediation mechanism into agent negotiations. The negotiation mechanism takes a supply-chain perspective to the construction of software services, attem...
Jung-Ching Chen, Nicolas E. Gold, Nikolay Mehandji...
Negotiation is a fundamental mechanism in distributed multi-agent systems. Since negotiation is a time-spending process, in many scenarios agents have to take into account the pas...
This paper aims at proposing a general formal framework for dialogue between autonomous agents which are looking for a common agreement about a collective choice. The proposed set...
This paper studies adaptive bilateral negotiation between software agents in e-commerce environments. Specifically, we assume that the agents are self-interested, the environment...