We present a formal model of negotiation between autonomous agents The pur pose of the negotiation is to reach an agreement about the provision of a service by one agent for another The model de nes a range of strategies and tactics that agents can employ to generate initial o ers evaluate proposals and o er counter proposals The model is based on computationally tractable assumptions demonstra...

This paper describes a study that assessed the performance implications of aligning information technology (IT) strategy to overall business strategy across a variety of health care organization (HCO) structures. We obtained survey results from senior executives of 178 hospitals to identify key configurations of IT strategic practices, business strategy and HCO structures. Using Kmeans cluster ...

Increasing adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) in information system engineering has led to the emergence of different OSS business strategies that affect and shape organizations’ business models. In order to obtain the specific organizational model for a concrete organization that is adhering to a specific OSS business strategy, we need to instantiate the general knowledge included in this ...