The University of Michigan Digital Library is a large-scale confederation of software agents, providing library content and services to users and each other within a distributed network environment. Allocation of resources and activities to the various agents is determined through a market-based negotiation process, where agents tender ooers to buy or sell services , basic resources, and other ...

To have an efficient and reliable infrastructure is crucial to any electronic market. Most existing electronic markets only provide limited services, such as, communication supports between buyers and sellers, databases to increase the selections, and market information to help estimation of reasonable transaction prices. In this paper, we propose a new electronic market, an Internet-based clea...

by the appropriate use of information technology, organizations can achieve sustainable competitive advantages. this technology because of including some characteristics such as being up-to-date, fast and precise and having different geographic localities all the time, has improved organizational efficiency, effectiveness and performance. in this article, we intend to investigate the role and e...

This paper proposes the application of market-based workflow management for enabling a new form of relationship between customer and suppliers of services. This form is more flexible than the usual long-term fixed relationship with single partners. It allows customers to coordinate their processes with the services operated by the suppliers while still benefiting from a market competition enhan...

This paper is about a market for credence goods. With a credence good consumers are never sure about the extent of the good they actually need. Therefore, sellers act as experts determining the customers’ requirements. This information asymmetry between buyers and sellers obviously creates strong incentives for sellers to cheat on services. We analyze whether the market mechanism may induce non...

This paper introduces the project "EOMD Mining: EO Services Market Development for the Mining Sector", an Earth Observation Market Development (EOMD) activity within the framework of the ESA EOEP Market Development Element. High-level objectives of the project include the definition and implementation of a marketable integrated service for the mining market which includes satellite SAR based la...