Replication is known to offer high availability in the presence of failures. This paper considers the case of a client making invocations on a group of replicated servers. It iden...
In most electronic auctions conducted over the Internet today price is still the only decision criteria for the best bid. This is true for all sorts of auctions in the electronic ...
Birgit Burmeister, Tobias Ihde, Thomas Kittsteiner...
Activity rules have emerged in recent years as an important aspect of practical auction design. The role of an activity rule in an iterative auction is to suppress strategic behav...
Pavithra Harsha, Cynthia Barnhart, David C. Parkes...
The Agile Manifesto values “customer collaboration over contract negotiation”. However, in many real projects, Agile practitioners spend considerable time and effort negotiati...
In this paper we introduce the Semi-Cooperative Extended Incremental Multiagent Agreement Problem with Preferences (SC-EIMAPP). In SC-EIMAPPs, variables arise over time. For each ...