In this paper, we describe a scenario for a distributed marketplace whose scope can be the whole Web where resource discovery agents find out about resources that may want to join the marketplace and electronic commerce is realised through buying agents representing the customers and the selling agents representing the resources like electronic catalogs. The marketplace contains an Intelligent ...

Robots perform tasks such as displacement, exploration or object transportation under different environments and operating conditions. In search of a high degree of mobility, versatility and robustness, researchers used the social insect metaphor and the selfassembling and self-reconfiguration abilities displayed when they transport objects or build nests as a model. This led to the design and ...

The Digital Marketplace is a market-based framework where network operators offer communications services with competition at the call level. It strives to address a tussle between the actors involved in a heterogeneous wireless access network. However, as with any market-like institution, it is vital to analyse the Digital Marketplace from the strategic perspective to ensure that all shortcomi...

Despite their potential to significantly reduce transaction costs for both buyers and sellers, e-marketplaces have struggled. Recent literature has examined the value propositions of e-marketplaces and proposed conceptual frameworks for their analysis. In this research, we move beyond conceptual analysis by developing a gametheoretic model of return-on-investment (ROI)–driven e-marketplace part...

The very nature of operations in peer-to-peer systems such as BitTorrent exposes information about participants to their peers. Nodes desiring anonymity, therefore, often chose to route their peer-to-peer traffic through anonymity relays, such as Tor. Unfortunately, these relays have little incentive for contribution and struggle to scale with the high loads that P2P traffic foists upon them. W...