Abstract--The Internet explosion and the increase in crucial web applications such as ebanking and e-commerce, make essential the need for network security tools. One of such tools...
Traditional negotiation, conducted face-to-face and via mail or telephone, is often difficult to manage, prone to misunderstanding, and time consuming. Automated negotiation promis...
Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. This paper surveys several of these agentmediated elect...
Software agents have become very popular in the last six or so years. They have been used successfully to filter information, match people with similar interests and automate repe...
Available resources can often be limited with regard to the number of demands. In this paper we propose an approach for solving this problem which consists of using the mechanisms...
Houssein Benameur, Brahim Chaib-draa, Peter G. Kro...
The amount of products and services available over the Internet increases significantly and it soon becomes beyond users ability to analyze and compare them. At the same time the n...
Software agents are a major innovation in how people use information systems, and they have parallels with how Decision Support Systems (DSS) support human decision-making. A DSS ...
Holland's Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems largely dealt with how systems, comprised of many self-interested entities, can and should adapt as a whole. This semin...
Robert E. Smith, Claudio Bonacina, Paul E. Kearney...
: Security is an important issue for the widespread deployment of applications based on software agent technology. It is generally agreed that without the proper countermeasures in...
We envision a future in which the global economy and the Internet will merge and evolve together into an information economy bustling with billions of economically motivated softw...
Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, Amy R. Greenw...