the main rock mass classification systems make use of similar rock mass parameters. due to lack of comprehensive estimation systems, determining the real specifications of jointed rocks faces some difficulties. a vast number of parameters with various degrees of impact are involved in such definitions. combination impact of all the effective parameters is to be figured out in order to come up w...

The introduction of the concept of QoS has led to an extension of the traditional concepts of service and service specification. However, design of QoS support is usually done without a systematic approach, leading to concepts of QoS support ranging from basic QoS monitoring capabilities to hard real-time guarantees. In more advanced QoS support, intermediate layers should be designed in a way ...

INSPIRE, a web-based negotiation support system has been used to obtain data about cross-cultural anonymous negotiations. One of the feature of the system is its verification of the agreement efficiency. In this paper we discuss some of the possible reasons for negotiators to accept inefficient compromises.

Negotiation, as an interactional strategy and proactive focus on form (FoF) have received increased attention in second language research. The combination of negotiation and proactive FoF, however, has not been examined in relation to L2 vocabulary learning. To address this gap, the present study investigated how the amount of negotiation and proactive FoF impacted learners’ vocabulary knowledg...

negotiation, as an interactional strategy and proactive focus on form (fof) have received increased attention in second language research. the combination of negotiation and proactive fof, however, has not been examined in relation to l2 vocabulary learning. to address this gap, the present study investigated how the amount of negotiation and proactive fof impacted learners’ vocabulary knowledg...

This paper presents a System for Analysis of Multi-Issue Negotiation (SAMIN). The agents in this system conduct one-to-one negotiations, in which the values across multiple issues are negotiated on simultaneously. It is demonstrated how the system supports both automated negotiation (i.e., conducted by a software agent) and human negotiation (where humans specify their bids). To analyse such ne...

Workflows are a major enabling technology for areas such as supply chains, logistics and production. They aim to provide computer support to the management of business processes in general. However, this technology offers little adequate support to requirements inherent to complex socio-technical systems. The domains of e-negotiations and transportation are examples that call for such systems. ...

Current Manufacturing Systems challenges due to international economic crisis, market globalization and e-business trends, incites the development of intelligent systems to support decision making, which allows managers to concentrate on high-level tasks management while improving decision response and effectiveness towards manufacturing agility. This paper presents a novel negotiation mechanis...

14 On the receipt of the service request, the QoS manager translates this request on one or more logical configurations based on the profile concept, and produces the corresponding configurations by accessing the system information repository (4). To decide about the possibility of the establishment of a configuration which is the mapping result of a logical configuration, the QoS manager asks ...