The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monit...
Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark H. Burstein, Jerry R. Hob...
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
Software systems are becoming more and more complex with a large number of interacting partners often distributed over a network. A common dilemma faced by software engineers in b...
Crowd-sourcing is a recent framework in which human intelligence tasks are outsourced to a crowd of unknown people ("workers") as an open call (e.g., on Amazon's Me...
Mechanism design is the study of preference aggregation protocols that work well in the face of self-interested agents. We present the first general-purpose techniques for automa...
Tuomas Sandholm, Vincent Conitzer, Craig Boutilier