Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Automated negotiation has attracted growing interest within fields such as e-business, multi-agent systems, and web services. Nevertheless, a majority of automated negotiation res...
In this paper, we present a new protocol to address multilateral multi-issue negotiation in a cooperative context. We consider complex dependencies between multiple issues by mode...
Miniar Hemaissia, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Chri...
Access control in decentralised collaborative systems present huge challenges especially where many autonomous entities including organisations, humans, software agents from diff...
Oluwafemi Ajayi, Richard O. Sinnott, Anthony Stell
In e-commerce, for some cases the service requested by the consumer cannot be fulfilled by the producer. In such cases, service consumers and producers need to negotiate their ser...