The rapid proliferation of enormous sources of digital data has led to greater dependence on
data-intensive services. Each service may actually request or create a large amount of data …

This chapter takes as its starting place that artefacts, in combination with humans, constitute
human action and social practices, including moral actions and practices. Our concern is …

This paper presents a novel approach for managing multi-bilateral concurrent negotiations.
We extend our previous work by considering a situation where a buyer agent negotiates with …

The end‐to‐end QoS negotiation for service level agreement establishment for composite
services involves compound multi‐party negotiations in which the composite service …

Automated negotiation is a market mechanism that can improve the electronic transactions
in terms of both the time needed to complete the transactions and the quality of the …

This paper addresses the problem of flexible procurement of multiple distinct services
characterized by multiple nonfunctional characteristics, ie, quality-of-service attributes. We …

This paper addresses the problem of flexible procurement of multiple services with multiple
non-functional characteristics, ie, quality of service attributes. We consider the one-to-many …

The effectiveness of prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) in enhancing the stability of soft
soils during cyclic loading was investigated using triaxial cyclic loading tests. Both …

The end-to-end QoS negotiation for SLA establishment for composite services involves
compound multi-party negotiations in which the composite service provider concurrently …

Aiming at the trouble of easy getting into local minimum and premature constringency
existed in quantum genetic algorithm, this paper presents a new algorithm through …