Software systems built by composing existing services are more and more capturing the interest of researchers and practitioners. The envisaged long term scenario is that services, ...
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Massimiliano Di Penta, Alessi...
In this paper we present a rich decision model for intelligent agents involved in multi issue negotiations. The model, grounded on information theory, takes into account the aspec...
An e-Negotiation process comprises computerfacilitated tasks, each of which aims at resolving an issue or a collection of co-related issues under negotiation. It involves an itera...
Shing-Chi Cheung, Patrick C. K. Hung, Dickson K. W...
Three distinct and interacting types of entities: people, software agents and e-markets are considered in this paper. These entities operate within Shaman, a proposed framework fo...
Gregory E. Kersten, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Hsiangchu L...
The challenges faced by mobile and distributed applications include the ability to discover and negotiate for the resources required for execution. The NOMAD (Negotiated Object Mo...