In the current research and development of e-commerce systems, the negotiation process and the enforcement / execution of the results of the negotiation process are often treated as separated business activities. The separation creates an integration problem because these activities should be integral parts of most business transactions. In this paper, we have proposed an approach to categorizi...

We introduce a global specification language for distributed negotiations, a recently introduced concurrent computation model with atomic negotiations combining synchronization of participants and choice as primitive. A token game on distributed negotiations determines reachable markings which enable possible next atomic negotiations. In a deterministic distributed negotiation, each participant...

The decision-making aspect of the negotiation process requires that participants collect and process information to determine alternatives, and to formulate offers and arguments. The communication aspect of negotiations involves exchange of offers, arguments and counterarguments. Collecting and processing new information involves learning, leading to modifications and adjustment of the decision...

In this paper, loss probabilities and steady state probabilities of data packets for an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network are investigated under the buffer division and push-out schemes. Data packets are classified in classes k which arrive in Poisson fashion to the service facility and are served with general service rate under buffer division scheme, finite buffer space N is divided in...

This study investigated the impact of oral pushed output on the learning and retention of English perfect tenses. During the study, a pre-test was administered to 22 freshmen majoring in English translation. The participants were randomly assigned to two groups. Then, for six sessions both groups received explicit instructions on English perfect tenses. Every session, the experimental group rec...

Supplier selection is an important problem in supply chain management (SCM), and has attracted the attention of many researchers. Tremendous effort has been spent on the development of agent-based systems to automate supplier selection negotiation process in SCM applications. In this kind of multiagent system (MAS), software agents are established to represent various parties and functions invo...

Negotiation is a process by which a joint decision is made by two or more parties [1]. Typically one of the parties starts a negotiation by offering the most preferred solution from the individual area of interest. If an offer is not acceptable to the other parties they make counter-offers in order to move them closer to an agreement. Multi-issue negotiation (also called multi-attribute negotia...

The purpose of negotiation is to enable agents to coordinate their actions. Characterizing coordination in informationtheoretic terms leads us to consider negotiation in the context of other processes that can transfer information among agents, such as those mediated by the environment. We illustrate these concepts using the Minority Game, an abstract model of resource allocation that achieves ...