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IFIP
2007
Springer
14 years 6 days ago
A Framework for QoS Contract Negotiation in Component-Based Applications
The support of QoS properties in component-based software requires the run-time selection of appropriate concrete QoS contracts at the ports of the interacting components. Such a s...
Mesfin Mulugeta, Alexander Schill
WOA
2001
13 years 7 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
EDOC
1997
IEEE
13 years 10 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...
ACSW
2006
13 years 7 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...
RULEML
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
A Contract Agreement Policy-Based Workflow Methodology for Agents Interacting in the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web aims at automating Web content understanding and user request satisfaction. Intelligent agents assist towards this by performing complex actions on behalf of their...
Kalliopi Kravari, Grammati-Eirini Kastori, Nick Ba...