Negotiation events in industrial procurement involving multiple, highly customisable goods pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of provid...
Abstract--Highly distributed environments such as pervasive computing environments not having global or broad control, need another attribute certificate management technique. For ...
We present a multi-dimensional, multi-step negotiation mechanism for task allocation among cooperative agents based on distributed search. This mechanism uses marginal utility gai...
Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Rodion M. Podoroz...
The severe competition in the market has driven enterprises to produce a wider variety of products to meet consumers' needs. However, frequent variation of product specificat...
Mashups are situational applications that join multiple sources to better meet the information needs of Web users. Web sources can be huge databases behind query interfaces, which...