Representation of negotiations in electronic markets and their support are important issues in today's e-commerce research. Whereas most activities are focused on automation ...
Abstract. We define a probabilistic contract framework for the construction of component-based embedded systems, based on the theory of Interactive Markov Chains. A contract specif...
Virtual Enterprises are a major trend within the B2B scenario. Technological support towards enabling this cooperation model includes the multi-agent systems paradigm. In this pape...
This paper presents the design of an open architecture for heterogeneous negotiating agents. Both the system level architecture as well as the architecture for negotiating agents a...
Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker, Dmytro Tykh...
In this paper we investigate the relationship between two problems, related to distributed systems, that are of particular interest in the context of Service Oriented Computing: at...