We consider a market with two suppliers and a set of buyers in search of procurement contracts with one of the suppliers. In particular, each buyer needs to process a certain volu...
—This paper presents the CONTRACT framework to address a fundamental deficiency of the IP network control plane, namely the lack of coordination between an IGP and other control...
Zheng Cai, Florin Dinu, Jie Zheng, Alan L. Cox, T....
Peer-to-peer networks providing QoS-enabled services are sensitive to hidden action situations, where the actions of a server peer are hidden from the peers who receive services f...
Raul Landa, Miguel Rio, David Griffin, Richard G. ...
We explore a rule-based formalisation for contracts: the rules capture conditional norms, that is, they describe situations arising during the enactment of a multi-agent system, an...
Abstract. Business process models describe workflows by a set of actions together with their ordering. When implementing business processes within a service-oriented architecture,...