IT outsourcing is about contracting technology services to a third-party but involves much more than the contractual definition of the arrangement. Structuring the alliance, managing the relationship and planning for the business must complement the contractual arrangements. It is not until all of these elements are aligned that IT outsourcing is likely

What justifies -in the head of another agent different from the one actingthe obligation to compensate is the fact that the principal agent has lengthen its own action through the implementation of a foreign activity for its own interests. We present two basic modal operators for representing, respectively, intentions in the interest of another agent and agency in the interest of another agent....

We propose, develop, and implement techniques for achieving contractual anonymity. In contractual anonymity, a user and service provider enter into an anonymity contract. The user is guaranteed anonymity and message unlinkability from the contractual anonymity system unless she breaks the contract. The service provider is guaranteed that it can identify users who break the contract. The signifi...

This study reports on computational experiments for an agent-based labor market model with adaptive choice and refusal of worksite partners and with endogenously evolving worksite behaviors. Two treatment factors are experimentally varied: market structure; and ex ante capacity constraints on potential work ooers and job openings. Particular attention is focused on experimentally determined cor...

We focus on syntactic aspects of differential awareness that give rise to contractual disputes. Boundedly rational parties use a common language, but do not share a common understanding of the world, leading to ambiguity in both syntactic and semantic forms. In contractual relationships, ambiguity leads to disagreement and disputes. We show that the agents may prefer simpler less ambiguous cont...