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ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Interactions between market barriers and communication networks in marketing systems
We investigate a framework where agents search for satisfying products by using referrals from other agents. Our model of a mechanism for transmitting word-of-mouth and the result...
Ian N. Durbach, Jan H. Hofmeyr
ISORC
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Checked Transactions in an Asynchronous Message Passing Environment
Traditionally transactions have been singlethreaded. In such an environment the thread terminating the transaction is, by definition, the thread which performed the work. Therefor...
Steve J. Caughey, Mark C. Little, Santosh K. Shriv...
IWPC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Understanding Object-Oriented Source Code from the Behavioural Perspective
Comprehension is a key activity that underpins a variety of software maintenance and engineering tasks. The task of understanding object-oriented systems is hampered by the fact t...
Neil Walkinshaw, Marc Roper, Murray Wood
AMAST
2004
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Expressing Iterative Properties Logically in a Symbolic Setting
We present a logic for reasoning about LOTOS behaviours which allows properties involving repeated patterns over actions and data to be expressed. The semantics of the logic is giv...
Carron Shankland, Jeremy Bryans, Lionel Morel
COMPSAC
2003
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Effects of Introducing Survival Behaviours into Automated Negotiators
With the rise of distributed e-commerce in recent years, demand for automated negotiation has increased. In turn, this has facilitated a demand for ever more complex algorithms to...
Peter Henderson, Stephen Crouch, Robert John Walte...