In online, dynamic environments, the services requested by consumers may not be readily served by the providers. This requires the service consumers and providers to negotiate the...
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....
The brain has long been seen as a powerful analogy from which novel computational techniques could be devised. However, most artificial neural network approaches have ignored the...
Gul Muhammad Khan, Julian F. Miller, David M. Hall...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
Sequential auctions are an important mechanism for buying/selling multiple objects. Existing work has studied sequential auctions for objects that are exclusively either common va...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....