We describe a number of strategies for a future service oriented market place. We describe the SLA’s role within the service framework, and how it enables customers to make value...
Paul McKee, Steve Taylor, Mike Surridge, Richard L...
We propose a framework to compute the utility of a proposal w.r.t. a preference set in a negotiation process. In particular, we refer to preferences expressed as weighted formulas ...
Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, Francesco M. Doni...
Abstract. We show how to embed a framework for multilateral negotiation, in which a group of agents implement a sequence of deals concerning the exchange of a number of resources, ...
TORRENT is an EU-Supported Framework 5 project that is showing how intelligent control and negotiation capabilities can be built into access networks so as to give the residential...
Eric Scharf, Peter Hamer, Konstantinos Smparounis,...
We present a proposal for a next-generation Internet based on chargeable Web Services and Utility Computing realised by a series of open but interacting markets. We demonstrate thr...