Abstract. E-Negotiation is the process of conducting negotiations between business partners using electronic means. The interest in e-negotiation is motivated by its potential to p...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
Ubicomp applications are characterized as situationaware, frequently-and-ephemerally-communicated and QoS-properties-associated. Using middleware to provide multiple QoS support f...
Stephen S. Yau, Yu Wang, Dazhi Huang, Hoh Peter In
Real-time enterprises rely on user queries being answered in a timely fashion and using fresh data. This is relatively easy when systems are lightly loaded and both queries and upd...
The binary relation framework has been shown to be applicable to many real-life preference handling scenarios. Here we study preference contraction: the problem of discarding sele...