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2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Competition for Procurement Contracts with Service Guarantees
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...
Fernando Bernstein, Francis de Véricourt
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
CONTRACT: Incorporating Coordination into the IP Network Control Plane
—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....
P2P
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Incentives Against Hidden Action in QoS Overlays
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. ...
CCIA
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Contract Formation through Preemptive Normative Conflict Resolution
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...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Timothy J. Norman
AGTIVE
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Assuring Consistency of Business Process Models and Web Services Using Visual Contracts
Abstract. Business process models describe workflows by a set of actions together with their ordering. When implementing business processes within a service-oriented architecture,...
Gregor Engels, Baris Güldali, Christian Solte...