Agreement Technologies

by Sascha Ossowski

<p>More and more transactions, whether in business or related to leisure activities, are mediated automatically by computers and computer networks, and this trend is having a significant impact on the conception and design of new computer applications. The next generation of these applications will be based on software agents to which increasingly complex tasks can be delegated, and which interact with each other in sophisticated ways so as to forge <i>agreements</i> in the interest of their human users. The wide variety of technologies supporting this vision is the subject of this volume....