To cope with large scale, agents are usually organized in a network such that an agent interacts only with its immediate neighbors in the network. Reinforcement learning technique...
We analyze quality-contingent prices as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of quality uncertainty in e-commerce and IT goods services. A contingency pricing contract specifie...
This paper defines a concept of trust incident accounts as verbal reports of empirical episodes in which a trustor has reached a state of positive or negative expectations of a tr...
Research on resource-bounded agents has established that rational agents need to be able to revise their commitments in light of new opportunities. In the context of collaborative...
Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus, David G. Sullivan, ...
Security is a critical issue in dynamic and open distributed environments such as network-based services or wireless networks. To ensure that a certain level of security is maintai...