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- research-articleJuly 2024
Service Level Agreement (SLAs) Model for Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) Based on Computational Resource Model of Virtual Machine
Procedia Computer Science (PROCS), Volume 234, Issue C2024, Pages 1476–1483https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2024.03.148AbstractDisaster Recovery (DR) providers define the main services as backup and restore, both with critical data and applications. Most clients of data and application backup, fully rely on DR's services to restore them in the disaster events. Furthermore,...
- research-articleJuly 2024
Cooperation mechanism, product quality, and consumer segment in group buying
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), Volume 64, Issue CMar 2024https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2024.101357AbstractWe analyze the cooperation mechanism in a group buying channel where a supplier sells products to heterogeneous consumers through an organizer. We consider two cooperation mechanisms: traditional wholesale mechanism and commission negotiation ...
Highlights- This paper analyzes the wholesale mechanism and the commission negotiation mechanism in group buying.
- We identify the conditions under which cooperation mechanism and consumer segment can lead to ”win-win” and ”win-lose” outcomes for ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models
Ethics and Information Technology (KLU-ETIN), Volume 26, Issue 3Sep 2024https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09783-5AbstractLarge language models (LLMs) structure the linguistic landscape by reflecting certain beliefs and assumptions. In this paper, we address the risk of people unthinkingly adopting and being determined by the values or worldviews embedded in LLMs. We ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Decentralized multi-agent path finding framework and strategies based on automated negotiation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (KLU-AGNT), Volume 38, Issue 1Jun 2024https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-024-09639-8AbstractThis paper introduces a negotiation framework to solve the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) Problem for self-interested agents in a decentralized fashion. The framework aims to achieve a good trade-off between the privacy of the agents and the ...
- short-paperDecember 2023
SwEDeL: Software Estimates’ Defense Lenses Designed from Negotiation Methods
SBQS '23: Proceedings of the XXII Brazilian Symposium on Software QualityNovember 2023, Pages 352–354https://doi.org/10.1145/3629479.3629498Software organizations face increasing pressure for higher productivity and faster delivery. In this context, technically sound software estimates created by competent software practitioners to account for software risks can be rejected, favoring too ...
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- ArticleJuly 2023
Negotiating on Social Media – Creating and Claiming Value While Establishing a Valuable Relationship
Social Computing and Social MediaJul 2023, Pages 514–528https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35927-9_35AbstractThe course and evaluation of negotiations is determined to a great extent by perceived subjective value. Negotiators want to feel respected, accepted, and valued by the other negotiator (feelings about the self). The relationship should be valued ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Enabling Organizations to Participate in the Ad Hoc Scheduling of a Cross-Organizational Data Pipeline
Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), Volume 31, Issue 3Jul 2023https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-023-09733-4AbstractIn case of an emergency situation, it is required to come up with solutions quickly. The supporting decision-making process should therefore be based on relevant data sources which are fed to data processing pipelines. These data sources may ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Do you know your partner's personality through virtual collaboration or negotiation? Investigating perceptions of personality and their impacts on performance
Computers in Human Behavior (COHB), Volume 141, Issue CApr 2023https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107608AbstractInterpersonal skills, including collaborative problem solving (CPS) and negotiation skills, are essential in many aspects of the 21st century. With the rapid development of technologies in the past decades, it has become increasingly ...
Highlights- We study how team members' personalities and the interaction processes impact performance on virtual tasks.
- research-articleJanuary 2023
Multi-agent system-based fuzzy constraints offer negotiation of workflow scheduling in Fog-Cloud environment
Computing (CMPT), Volume 105, Issue 7Jul 2023, Pages 1361–1393https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-022-01148-4AbstractThis paper presents the multi-agent system fuzzy-constraints offer negotiation of Workflow Scheduling in Fog-Cloud environment, called (Fuzzy-Cone) approach, to solve the workflow scheduling problem with conflicting constraints in Fog-Cloud IT ...
- articleOctober 2022
The Impact of Cross-Culture Risk on International Business Negotiations
International Journal of Information Technology Project Management (IJITPM-IGI), Volume 13, Issue 2Oct 2022, Pages 1–13https://doi.org/10.4018/IJITPM.311850International business negotiations face differences between different cultures. Cultural dimensions can affect the negotiation processes that take place between representatives of different cultures in the negotiations. As a result of the cultural ...
- research-articleOctober 2022
Higher-order theory of mind is especially useful in unpredictable negotiations
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (KLU-AGNT), Volume 36, Issue 2Oct 2022https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-022-09558-6AbstractIn social interactions, people often reason about the beliefs, goals and intentions of others. This theory of mind allows them to interpret the behavior of others, and predict how they will behave in the future. People can also use this ability ...
- extended-abstractSeptember 2022
Let's Negotiate with Automation: How can Humans and HMIs Negotiate Disagreement on Automated Vehicles?
AutomotiveUI '22: Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular ApplicationsSeptember 2022, Pages 179–181https://doi.org/10.1145/3544999.3550159In automated vehicles, the driver and the vehicle make a decision on the driving. However, there is no guarantee that drivers always agree or follow the system's decision. Drivers can reject the system's proposal or regain control, and it reduces the ...
- ArticleJuly 2022
Smart Contracts for the CloudAnchor Platform
Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS CollectionJul 2022, Pages 423–434https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18192-4_34AbstractCloudAnchor is a multi-agent brokerage platform for the negotiation of Infrastructure as a Service cloud resources between Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, acting either as providers or consumers. This project entails the research, design, and ...
- research-articleJuly 2022
Multi-Round coordination for capacity allocation in supply chains with multiple retailers
Computers and Industrial Engineering (CINE), Volume 169, Issue CJul 2022https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2022.108154Highlights- A compromising multi-round coordination mechanism is proposed.
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This study develops a multiple-round compromising mechanism to achieve coordination of a supply chain with a single supplier and multiple retailers. Typically, the availability of global information and its possibility to be used to ...
- ArticleMay 2022
Computational Theory of Mind for Human-Agent Coordination
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XVMay 2022, Pages 92–108https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20845-4_6AbstractIn everyday life, people often depend on their theory of mind, i.e., their ability to reason about unobservable mental content of others to understand, explain, and predict their behaviour. Many agent-based models have been designed to develop ...
- ArticleMarch 2022
Preference Elicitation and Negotiation in a Group Recommender System
AbstractWe present a novel approach to group recommender systems that better takes into account the social interaction in a group when formulating, discussing and negotiating the features of the item to be jointly selected. Our approach provides ...
- research-articleJanuary 2022
Decentralised Agent-Based Medical Image Reconstruction
Procedia Computer Science (PROCS), Volume 207, Issue C2022, Pages 2106–2115https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.09.270AbstractIn this paper we propose a solution to a challenging task of magnetic resonance image reconstruction in a scalable and flexible way. The proposal elaborates task slicing and its distribution using market-based approach, where participating nodes ...
- ArticleDecember 2021
FUN-Agent: A HUMAINE Competitor
Distributed Artificial IntelligenceDec 2021, Pages 171–184https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94662-3_11AbstractEven prior to the recent surge of interest in industry and the general populace about the potential of human-AI collaboration [23], academic researchers have been pushing the frontier of new modalities of peer-level and ad-hoc human agent ...
- ArticleNovember 2021
Strategic Voting in Negotiating Teams
AbstractA negotiating team is a group of two or more agents who join together as a single negotiating party because they share a common goal related to the negotiation. Since a negotiating team is composed of several stakeholders, represented as a single ...
- research-articleOctober 2021
Blockchain-Enabled Trust in Intercompany Networks Applying the Agency Theory
BIOTC '21: Proceedings of the 2021 3rd Blockchain and Internet of Things ConferenceJuly 2021, Pages 8–14https://doi.org/10.1145/3475992.3475994Globalization, digitalization and disruptions recently driven by the Covid19 pandemic are affecting today's supply chains and thus are challenging companies in maintaining their businesses. Resulting uncertainties lead to potential over- and ...