If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when nego...
Claudio Bartolini, Chris Preist, Nicholas R. Jenni...
Growth in the complexity of computing systems, in the dynamism of the environments they operate in, and the need for timely adaptations as conditions change, now pose significant...
Abstract--Since Grid computing systems involve large-scale resource sharing, resource management is central to their operations. Whereas there are more Grid resource management sys...
An architecture for the integration of Grid applications with a Catallactic middleware is described, along with an analysis of issues associated with this integration in a real wo...
Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana, Pablo Chacin, Isaac Cha...
Electronic markets, distributed peer-to-peer applications and other forms of online collaboration are all based on mutual trust, which enables transacting peers to overcome the un...