In commercial transactions, an intermediary might be involved to help transacting parties to conduct their business. Nevertheless, the intermediary may not be fully trusted. In th...
Jose Antonio Onieva, Jianying Zhou, Mildrey Carbon...
Enterprise Applications are increasingly moving towards providing web access to their users through "thin clients". There is a strong case for their integration using we...
Vishnu S. Pendyala, Simon S. Y. Shim, Jerry Z. Gao
We consider the problem of designing mechanisms for online problems in which agents arrive over time and the mechanism is unaware of the agent until the agent announces her arriva...
Global processes imply that the information systems have the architecture of virtual peer-to-peer networks of autonomous permanent services. It is typical for IS supporting e-gover...
In this paper we present a motivational mechanism to generate and determine the worth of goals and to represent various constraints involved in satisfying a goal. The work builds o...