We consider an SLA (Service Level Agreement) committed between two parties to use the guarantee of QoS provided by a QoS Enabled Network (QEN). QEN can provide guarantee of QoS bec...
Data archiving systems rely on replication to preserve information. This paper discusses how a network of autonomousarchiving sites can trade data to achievethe most reliable repl...
In recent years there has been a movement toward deployment of distributed approaches for electronic commerce. Intelligent software agents, for instance, may be instructed to act ...
Supply chain formation presents difficult coordination issues for distributed negotiation protocols. Agents must simultaneously negotiate production relationships at multiple lev...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman, Fredrik Ygge
: Protection of personal data in the Internet is already a challenge today. Users have to actively look up privacy policies of websites and decide whether they can live with the te...