Abstract. If we are to enable agents to handle increasingly greater levels of complexity, it is necessary to equip them with mechanisms that support greater degrees of autonomy. Th...
More than ¾ of large software projects suffer large cost and schedule overruns or fail outright. Deficits in project requirements cause more than half of these failures and overr...
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agent...
This paper describes a Quality of Service (QoS) management approach and architecture as well as a case study for Service Level Management (SLM). Our approach brings in a new persp...
Changzhou Wang, Haiqin Wang, Alice Chen, Rodolfo A...