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...
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...
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...
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...
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...