This paper examines how service providers may resolve the trade-off between their personalization efforts and users' individual privacy concerns. We analyze how negotiation te...
In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm that allows service consumer agents to automatically select and provision service provider agents for their workflows in highly dynamic...
Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Pa...
— This paper studies an auction based allocation of network resources for short-term contracts for heterogeneous network services. The combinatorial winner selection yields the o...
Using the particular example of online banking services, we examine the effects of pricing strategies on the demand for different modes of online banking given that the market exh...
— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...