In this paper we investigate the relationship between two problems, related to distributed systems, that are of particular interest in the context of Service Oriented Computing: at...
This paper presents the design and pricing of financial contracts for the supply and procurement of interruptible electricity service. While the contract forms and pricing methodo...
Existing studies on IT outsourcing have mainly examined partnership factors that influence IT outsourcing effectiveness. This stream of IT outsourcing research has largely ignored...
Contract and rights management – and thus property rights protection – has gained increasing importance as a quality standard in brokerage and electronic commerce environments...
We present an approach to the bid-evaluation problem in a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, called MAGNET. The MAGNET market infrastructure provides support for a variet...
Erik S. Steinmetz, John Collins, Scott Jamison, Ra...