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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Mobile opportunistic commerce: mechanisms, architecture, and application
We present mechanisms, architectures, and an implementation addressing challenges with mobile opportunistic commerce centering on markets and mechanisms that support the procureme...
Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz, Chris Meek
AUSAI
1997
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Social Co-ordination among Autonomous Problem-Solving Agents
Co-ordination is the glue that binds the activities of autonomous problem-solving agents together into a functional whole. Co-ordination mechanisms for distributed problem-solving ...
Sascha Ossowski, Ana García-Serrano
BDIM
2007
IEEE
95views Business» more  BDIM 2007»
14 years 24 days ago
A Mechanism of Specifying and Determining Pricing in Utility Computing Environments
Utility services providers offer on-demand services for multiple users and applications from a shared resource pool. The utility computing environment provider manages resources th...
Jinsong Ouyang, Akhil Sahai, Jim Pruyne
BPM
2007
Springer
144views Business» more  BPM 2007»
14 years 19 days ago
Managing Socio-technical Interactions in Healthcare Systems
Abstract. We put forward an architectural framework that promotes the externalisation of the social dimension that arises in software-intensive systems which, like in healthcare, e...
Osama El-Hassan, José Luiz Fiadeiro, Reiko ...
AAMAS
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Evolutionary mechanism design: a review
Abstract The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of al...
Steve Phelps, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons