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WOA
2001
13 years 6 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
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...
EDOC
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Electronic contract negotiation as an application niche for mobile agents
In this paper we propose electronic contract negotiation — a sub-part of the more general area of electronic commerce — as an example application for mobile agents. We start b...
Frank Griffel, M. Tuan Tu, Malte Münke, Micha...
MATES
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
C-IPS: Specifying Decision Interdependencies in Negotiations
Negotiation is an important mechanism of coordination in multiagent systems. Contrary to early conceptualizations of negotiating agents, we believe that decisions regarding the neg...
Kay Schröter, Diemo Urbig
JOT
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Quality of Service Contract Specification, Establishment, and Monitoring for Service Level Management
This paper describes a Quality of Service (QoS) management approach and architecture as well as a case study for Service Level Management (SLM). Our approach brings in a new persp...
Changzhou Wang, Haiqin Wang, Alice Chen, Rodolfo A...