Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) provide infrastructures to make resources available to other participants in the network as independent services. However, service providers, n...
The automation of agents that bargain within markets is a challenging open problem. In these settings a seller agent can take advantage from the competition among several buyer ag...
Currently a number of these on-line support systems for electronic contracting are under development. In this paper we develop a logical formalism to represent the content of busi...
Abstract. The rapid advances in the computer industry allow building larger systems that require mass storage volumes. As storage space increases, its management becomes increasing...
Full revelation of private values is impractical in many large-scale markets, where posted price mechanisms are a simpler alternative. In this work, we compare the asymptotic beha...