We analyse scenarios in which self-interested agents negotiate with each other in order to agree on deals to exchange resources. We consider two variants of the framework, one whe...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
E-commerce strategists advise companies to create virtual communities for their customers. But what is involved in establishing and maintaining virtual communities? This paper add...
Increasingly complex supplier-relationships dominate product development, independent of industries and products. Mostly the primary source of risks and later problems is insuffic...
Manuel Reis Monteiro, Christof Ebert, Matthias Rec...
We can touch things, and our senses tell us when our hands are touching something. But most computer input devices cannot detect when the user touches or releases the device or so...
This paper focuses on active networks applications and in particular on the possible interactions among these applications. Active networking is a very promising research field wh...
Luca Delgrossi, Giuseppe Di Fatta, Domenico Ferrar...