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AGENTS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Automated negotiation from declarative contract descriptions
We present and implement an infrastructure for automating the negotiation of business contracts. Underlying our system is a declarative language for both (1) fully-specified, exe...
Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Benjamin N. ...
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
SweetDeal: representing agent contracts with exceptions using XML rules, ontologies, and process descriptions
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
Benjamin N. Grosof, Terrence C. Poon
WOA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
A Contract Decommitment Protocol for Automated Negotiation in Time Variant Environments
Negotiation is a fundamental mechanism in distributed multi-agent systems. Since negotiation is a time-spending process, in many scenarios agents have to take into account the pas...
Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi, Matteo Somacher
WISE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards the Automation of E-Negotiation Processes Based on Web Services - A Modeling Approach
Abstract. E-Negotiation is the process of conducting negotiations between business partners using electronic means. The interest in e-negotiation is motivated by its potential to p...
Stefanie Rinderle, Morad Benyoucef
SETN
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Data Brokers: Building Collections through Automated Negotiation
Collecting digital materials is time-consuming and can gain from automation. Since each source—and even each acquisition—may involve a separate negotiation of terms, a collecto...
Fillia Makedon, Song Ye, Sheng Zhang, James Ford, ...