We present a simple and uniform communication framework for an agent-based market infrastructure, the goal of which is to enable automation of consumer goods markets distributed ov...
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...
Mixed Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions (MMUCAs) offer a high potential to be employed for the automated assembly of supply chains of agents. However, little is known about the fac...
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agent...
Abstract The Semantic Web (SW) can be seen as abstract representation and exchange of data and metadata. Metadata is given in terms of data mark-up and reference to shared, Web-acc...