Proxy bidding has been proposed for combinatorial auctions as a means to speed up the auctions, to simplify the user interface, and to limit strategic behavior. The only previousl...
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), together with the Expectation-Maximization (EM) procedure, can be used to find a low-dimension model that maximizes the loglikelihood of obser...
Sheng Zhang, Weihong Wang, James Ford, Fillia Make...
Business rules define or constrain some business [24]. Many different business rules engines exist to capture and manage the rules that comprise ones business. The lack of standa...
The concept of MDA (model driven architecture) aims at the goal of longevity (through business logic and architecture migration between different platforms) and quality improvemen...
Konrad Pfadenhauer, Burkhard Kittl, Schahram Dustd...
Business rules change quite often. These changes cannot be handled efficiently by representing business rules embedded in the source code of the business logic. Efficient handli...
Web Service protocol standards should be unambiguous and provide a complete description of the allowed behavior of the protocols’ participants. Implementation of such protocols ...
Friedrich H. Vogt, Simon Zambrovski, Boris Gruschk...
In this paper, we address the importance of efficient execution in electronic markets. Due to intense competition for profit opportunities, trading costs can represent a significa...
Yuriy Nevmyvaka, Michael S. Kearns, Amy Papandreou...
This paper studies adaptive bilateral negotiation between software agents in e-commerce environments. Specifically, we assume that the agents are self-interested, the environment...