This paper addresses the problem of transforming natural language descriptions of contracts into a form that is suitable for automating various contract management functions. We i...
Abstract. Electronic markets, dispute resolution and negotiation protocols are three types of application domain that can be viewed as open agent systems. Members of such systems a...
: Most of today’s e-marketplaces support a single negotiation protocol. The protocol is usually built into the e-marketplace infrastructure, therefore if a new one is introduced ...
This paper describes two different ways of understanding operation contracts in conceptual modeling: the strict and the extended interpretations. The main difference between them l...
In order to co-ordinate multiple resource providers in grid environment to meet a common objective, support for negotiation is needed to establish a contract between the user and ...
Ponnuram Balakrishnan, S. Thamarai Selvi, Gnanapra...