Trust is a crucial basis for interactions among parties in large, open distributed systems. Yet, the scale and dynamism of such systems makeit infeasible for each party to have a direct basis for trusting another party. For this reason, the participants in an open systemmust share information...

A business process streamlines how different business parties interact with one another, in order to achieve a business goal. The modeling and enactment of business process is notoriously complex, especially in open systems where the participants are autonomous and heterogeneous. Conceptually, a...

Business process management faces challenges in dealing with business abnormalities and ever-changing business requirements. Traditional business process management approaches evolved from software engineering and workflow management where activities, messages and control logic are given...

This work is an initial exploration of the use of the decision-theoretic concept of utility to guide pattern mining. We present the use of utility functions as against thresholds and constraints as the mechanism to express user preferences and formulate several pattern mining problems that use...

The formation of internet-based social networks has revived research on traditional social network models as well as interest-matching, or match-making, systems. In order to automate or augment the process of interest-matching, we follow the trend of qualitative decision theory by using...

We model sequential, possibly multi-unit, sealed-bid auctions as a sequential game with imperfect and incomplete information. We develop an agent that constructs a bidding policy by sampling the valuation space of its opponents, solving the resulting complete information game, and aggregating...