The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...
Electronic exchanges are double-sided marketplaces that allow multiple buyers to trade with multiple sellers, with aggregation of demand and supply across the bids to maximize the...
Agent negotiation over multiple issues is often seen as the process of searching for a solution in a complex and large space. Depending on the negotiation mechanism such search sp...
Kuo-Ming Chao, Muhammad Younas, Rachid Anane, Chen...
Markets with time dependent goods are special cases of multi commodity markets.The design of large flexible markets with time dependent goods is a computational challenge. In thi...
The paper analyzes auctions which are not completely enforceable. In such auctions, economic agents may fail to carry out their obligations, and parties involved cannot rely on ex...
Translating documents from a source to a target language is a repetitive activity. The attempt to automate such a difficult task has been a long-term scientific dream. Among the...
Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Paolo Tibe...
In this paper, we present a scheme for identifying instances of events and extracting information about them. The scheme can handle all events with which an action can be associat...
Harsha V. Madhyastha, N. Balakrishnan, K. R. Ramak...
Global e-Commerce and mass-outreach e-Governance programs have brought into sharp focus the need for database systems to store and manipulate text data efficiently in a suite of ...