The wide diffusion of new technologies in communication and business has changed how consumer and product/store knowledge has to be managed and represented digitally. This issue h...
Pierpaolo Singer, Maria Antonella Ferri, Lucia Aie...
This paper studies adaptive bilateral negotiation between software agents in e-commerce environments. Specifically, we assume that the agents are self-interested, the environment...
Trust is a sine qua non for trade. According to transaction cost economics, a contract always offers some opportunity to defect. In the case of asymmetric product information, wher...
Gert Jan Hofstede, Catholijn M. Jonker, Tim Verwaa...
Abstract. A Web Service is commonly not an independent software entity, but plays a role in some business process. Hence, it depends on the services provided by external Web Servic...
Antonia Bertolino, Guglielmo De Angelis, Lars Fran...
Atomicity is a desirable property for business processes to conduct transactions in Business-to-Business (B2B) collaboration. Although it is possible to reason about atomicity of ...