W e investigate here the performance implications of supporting transaction atomicity in a distributed realtime database system. Using a detailed simulation model of a firm-deadli...
Ramesh Gupta, Jayant R. Haritsa, Krithi Ramamritha...
We aim at an adequate formal description of the dynamics of commitments and trust by transferring insights about actual human practices to a formal setting. Our framework is based ...
A variety of business relationships in open settings can be understood in terms of the creation and manipulation of commitments among the participants. These include B2C and B2B c...
This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
Making commitments, e.g., through promises and threats, enables a player to exploit the strengths of his own strategic position as well as the weaknesses of that of his opponents....