The importance of electronic collaboration has risen as successful organisations recognize that they need to convert their intellectual resources into goods and services their cus...
Sajda Qureshi, Andries van der Vaart, Gijs Kauling...
In various application domains there is a desire to compare process models, e.g., to relate an organization-specific process model to a reference model, to find a web service match...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Ana Karla A. de Medeiros,...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
- E-services will change the future of business as well as private relationships. The rearrangement of value chains, new competitive arenas and the growing necessity and interest i...
In the everyday business world, the sourcing process of multiple goods and services usually involves complex negotiations (via telephone, fax, etc) that include discussion of prod...