– The importance of business processes for a successful enterprise cannot be overestimated. They are core assets through which a business turns its potential into actual competit...
We present a formal model of negotiation between autonomous agents. The purpose of the negotiation is to reach an agreement about the provision of a service by one agent for anoth...
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenning...
The complex business environment requires managing business processes with the ability to adapt to changes and to collaborate in activities. Conventional workflow approaches based...
Abstract. Many autonomous agents operate in domains in which the cooperation of their fellow agents cannot be guaranteed. In such domains negotiation is essential to persuade other...
Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jennings, Pablo Noriega...
Abstract. This paper presents a general multi-agent architecture for the management of businessprocesses,and an agent designthat has been implemented within such a system. The auto...
Timothy J. Norman, Nicholas R. Jennings, Peyman Fa...