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ICMAS
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Leveled Commitment Contracting among Myopic Individually Rational Agents
In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...
Martin Andersson, Tuomas Sandholm
ACSW
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Formal analysis of secure contracting protocol for e-tendering
Formal specification and verification of protocols have been credited for uncovering protocol flaws; revealing inadequacies in protocol design of the Initial Stage and Negotiation...
Rong Du, Ernest Foo, Colin Boyd, Kim-Kwang Raymond...
FC
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Achieving Fairness in Private Contract Negotiation
Abstract. Suppose Alice and Bob are two entities (e.g. agents, organizations, etc.) that wish to negotiate a contract. A contract consists of several clauses, and each party has ce...
Keith B. Frikken, Mikhail J. Atallah
ICWS
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Service Level Agreement Based Grid Scheduling
In order to co-ordinate multiple resource providers in grid environment to meet a common objective, support for negotiation is needed to establish a contract between the user and ...
Ponnuram Balakrishnan, S. Thamarai Selvi, Gnanapra...
DLOG
2007
13 years 7 months ago
DL-based Alternating-offers Protocol for Automated Multi-issue Bilateral Negotiation
Abstract. We present a novel approach to logic-based bilateral negotiation in ecommerce systems. We use Description Logics to describe both requests/offers submitted by buyers and ...
Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciasc...