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WISE
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Towards the Automation of E-Negotiation Processes Based on Web Services - A Modeling Approach
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...
Stefanie Rinderle, Morad Benyoucef
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
SweetDeal: representing agent contracts with exceptions using XML rules, ontologies, and process descriptions
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...
Benjamin N. Grosof, Terrence C. Poon
FTDCS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Situation-Aware Contract Specification Language for Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing
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
BIRTE
2006
139views Business» more  BIRTE 2006»
14 years 6 days ago
Quality Contracts for Real-Time Enterprises
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...
Alexandros Labrinidis, Huiming Qu, Jie Xu
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Contracting preference relations for database applications
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...
Denis Mindolin, Jan Chomicki