Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek and provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discove...
eb services are becoming widely deployed to implement the automation of business processes such as supply chain management, inventory tracking, and healthcare management, just to ...
Abstract. In many settings, bidding agents for auctions do not know their preferences a priori. Instead, they must actively determine them through deliberation (e.g., information p...
—In a number of scenarios, services generated using a model-driven development (MDD) approach could benefit from “reflective” access to the information in the models from w...
Negotiation surrounds our day-to-day lives. Research in the field of automated negotiations has suggested the design and use of automated negotiators, on one hand to allow facilit...