digital credential, trust, negotiation, E-Services marketplaces, authorization, E-Services In the present economy, business-to-business (B2B) relationships are usually long-termed and characterised by a high degree of mutual pre-existing trust. With the advent of the Internet economy, E-Services marketplaces will provide an infrastructure where B2B relationships will be set up in a highly dynam...

With the rise of distributed e-commerce in recent years, demand for automated negotiation has increased. In turn, this has facilitated a demand for ever more complex algorithms to conduct these negotiations. However, building robust automated negotiators able to survive and succeed in growing negotiation communities is difficult. As the complexity of these algorithms increases, our ability to r...

Electronic negotiations are supported by a number of technologies including e-mail, web-enabled decision support systems and e-negotiation systems (ENSs). The features of the ENS used by a negotiator can affect the negotiation outcome because of the type and scope of support provided and its presentation. ENSs usually interface with users via a natural language system and/or graphical display. ...

Over the past decade automated negotiation has developed into a subject of central interest in distributed artificial intelligence. For a great part this is because of its broad application potential in different areas such as economics, e-commerce, the political and social sciences. The complexity of practical automated negotiation – a multi-issue, incomplete-information and continuous-time en...

The emerging B2B technologies allow for more automated management of e-contracts including contract drafting, negotiation and monitoring. As technology infrastructure becomes available for electronic exchange of contracts and contract-related messages, the IT community is becoming more interested in modeling of contracts as governance structures for many interorganisational interactions. This p...

This paper discusses the Akshaya E-Government project. The paper uses general concepts borrowed from actor network theory to discuss the ongoing negotiation that shapes E-Government projects. We aim at shedding light on the importance of the dynamic interactions that shape the impact of ICT on government polices. In particular, we show that the nature of the service delivered and the socioecono...

Agent-based negotiation teams are negotiation parties formed by more than a single individual. Individuals unite as a single negotiation party because they share a common goal that is related to a negotiation with one or several opponents. My research goal is providing agent-based computational models for negotiation teams in multi-agent systems. 1 What are Negotiation Teams? The main subject o...