The support of QoS properties in component-based software requires the run-time selection of appropriate concrete QoS contracts at the ports of the interacting components. Such a s...
This paper examines how service providers may resolve the trade-off between their personalization efforts and users' individual privacy concerns. We analyze how negotiation te...
We investigate people’s attitudes towards the possible use of mobile negotiation support systems (NSS) in different social contexts and the consequences for their design. For tha...
The community of multi-agent systems has been studying ways to improve the selection of partner agents for joint action. One of such approaches consists in estimating the trustwort...
— As content delivery to wireless devices becomes faster and scalable, it is likely that mobile commerce will constitute a significant portion of digital commerce. In markets, b...