This paper surveys and analyzes the state of the art of agent-mediated electronic commerce
(e-commerce), concentrating particularly on the business-to-consumer (B2C) and business …

Multi-agent systems (MASs) is an area of distributed artificial intelligence that emphasizes
the joint behaviors of agents with some degree of autonomy and the complexities arising …

In utility‐driven cluster computing, cluster Resource Management Systems (RMSs) need to
know the specific needs of different users in order to allocate resources according to their …

We present a model for bilateral negotiations that considers the uncertain and dynamic
outside options. Outside options affect the negotiation strategies via their impact on the …

Cloud providers commonly incur heavy upfront set up costs which remain almost constant
whether they serve a single or many customers. In order to generate a return on this …

Negotiation is a decentralized decision-making process that seeks to find an agreement that
will satisfy the requirements of two or more parties in the presence of limited common …

1. BACKGROUND Auctions have been used for millennia to allocate scarce resources, and
have risen to prominence in recent years as Internet access, familiarity and use has …

This paper presents a decision theoretic framework that an autonomous agent can use to
bid effectively across multiple, simultaneous auctions. Specifically, our framework enables …

Since the late 1980s extensive observational campaigns like the Joint Global Ocean Flux
Study (JGOFS) and the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) have helped to …

The contract net protocol is a widely used protocol in DAI, as it proved to be a flexible and
low communication interaction protocol for task assignment. It is however not clear in which …