This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...
The Intelligent Network (IN) represents the world wide accepted basis for uniform provisioning of advanced telecom services. On the other hand IP based communication is fast becomi...
Bernard Pagurek, Jinrong Tang, Tony White, Roch H....
We study the problem of agents attempting to find quality service providers in a distributed environment. While referrals from other agents can be used to locate high-quality prov...
Multi-item, multi-unit negotiations in industrial procurement pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of providering agents’ offers. Typic...
Service matchmaking is the process of finding suitable services given by the providers for the service requests of consumers. Previous approaches to service matchmaking is mostly ...