In multi-issue negotiations, autonomous agents can act cooperatively to benefit from mutually preferred agreements. However, empirical evidence suggests that they often fail to s...
We analyse scenarios in which self-interested agents negotiate with each other in order to agree on deals to exchange resources. We consider two variants of the framework, one whe...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
The most natural way of thinking about negotiation is probably a situation whereby each of the parties involved initially make a proposal that is particularly beneficial to themse...
We consider the problem of offloading secure access-controlled content from central origin servers to distributed caches so clients can access a proximal cache rather than the orig...
James Giles, Reiner Sailer, Dinesh C. Verma, Sures...
Workflow management systems require advanced transaction support to cope with their inherently long-running processes. The recent trend to distribute workflow executions requires ...
Jochem Vonk, Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Erik Boertjes, ...