The Web services paradigm is expected to transform the Web into a distributed application-to-application network. The Web services landscape is in an evolving state with core spec...
This article presents a model for designing negotiation agent with two distinguishing features: 1) a marketdriven strategy and 2) a set of relaxed decision rules. Market-driven ag...
In some situations, a decision is best represented by an incompletely analyzed act: conditionally to a certain event, the consequences of the decision on sub-events are perfectly ...
IT service requirements offer a seemingly classic Requirements Engineering (RE) problem. But, when attempting to solve it with RE methods, we are faced with difficulties. RE metho...
Gil Regev, Olivier Hayard, Donald C. Gause, Alain ...
Abstract. This paper presents a formal framework within which autonomous agents can dynamically select and apply different mechanisms to coordinate their interactions with one ano...
Rachel A. Bourne, Karen Shoop, Nicholas R. Jenning...