Trust is a sine qua non for trade. According to transaction cost economics, a contract always offers some opportunity to defect. In the case of asymmetric product information, wher...
Gert Jan Hofstede, Catholijn M. Jonker, Tim Verwaa...
The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monit...
Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark H. Burstein, Jerry R. Hob...
This paper proposes the concept of digital cities as a social information infrastructure for urban life (including shopping, business, transportation, education, welfare and so on)...
Autonomous robots need to track objects. Object tracking relies on predefined robot motion and sensory models. Tracking is particularly challenging if the robots can actuate on th...
A major challenge in efficiently solving distributed resource allocation problems is to cope with the dynamic state changes that characterise such systems. An effective solution t...
Partha Sarathi Dutta, Nicholas R. Jennings, Luc Mo...