Towards host-to-host meeting scheduling negotiation

Learning to Select Negotiation Strategies in Multi-agent Meeting Scheduling

In this paper we look at the Multi-Agent Meeting Scheduling problem where distributed agents negotiate meeting times on behalf of their users. While many negotiation approaches have been proposed for scheduling meetings it is not well understood how agents can negotiate strategically in order to maximize their users’ utility. To negotiate strategically an agent needs to learn to pick good strat...

Contract Negotiation Support for Developing Host Countries

Transcript analysis of some defense genes of tomato in response to host and non-host bacterial pathogens

The transcript levels of six defense genes including pathogenesis-related gene 1 (PR-1), pathogenesis-related gene 2 (PR-2), pathogenesis-related gene 5 (PR-5), lipoxygenase (LOX), phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) and catalase (CAT) were investigated in tomato plants inoculated with Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. phaseoli as a non-host pathogen and X. euvesicatoria as a host pathogen. Activation o...

meeting: ND to host US and African reps

In a historical first-tim e con­ ference to be held next week at the U niversity o f Notre Dame, officials of the African National Congress (ANC) w ill meet U.S. gove rnm en t rep re sen ta tives and executives from more than 40 m ajor U.S. corporations to discuss a policy for investment in post-apartheid South Africa. Over the weekend, the ANC notified Notre Dame that it in ­ vited representat...

P-77: HOST Patterns and Sperm Quality

Background: Following the expansion of human infertility, different procedures have been utilized for separation of normal sperm during ICSI (Intra cytoplasmic sperm injection). Hypo-osmotic swelling test (HOST) is one of the tests which have been introduced for assessment of integrity of sperm membrane when confronted with hypo osmotic condition. This test may also reflect intracellular organe...