To secure good deals, an agent may engage in multiple concurrent negotiations for a particular good or service. However for this to be effective, the agent needs to carefully coor...
Abstract. The current generation of data mining tools have limited capacity and performance, since these tools tend to be sequential. This paper explores a migration path out of th...
Resource management is a fundamental concept in operating system design. In recent years it has become fashionable to consider the problem as an aspect of heterogeneous support fo...
Abstract. Shopbots are agents that search the Internet for information pertaining to the price and quality of goods or services. With the advent of shopbots, a dramatic reduction i...
A key lesson learned from economic and game theory research is that negotiation protocols have substantial, rippling effects on the overall nature of the system. online auctions a...