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- A Software Framework for Automated Negotiation
- If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when negotiation terminates, and what is the structure of the resulting agreements. Current standardization activities such as FIPA and WS-Agreement represent this as...
- Tags: Software, Negotiation, Free Trade, Finance
- White papers 2006-02-17
- Preparing for a vendor negotiation
- In this week's Application Developer Management newsletter, author Scott Withrow describes the research he did in order to prepare an employer for a vendor negotitation.How do you approach a vendor negotiation? If you have ever been ill-prepared for a negotiation meeting, what did you learn from that experience? What do...
- Tags: Application Developer Management newsletter, it management, negotiation, Newsletter Editor, vendor negotiation
- Discussion threads 2004-10-05
- Improve the Contract Negotiation Process With the Right Tools
- Contract negotiation is a central element in any attorney's practice - particularly for business and corporate attorneys. As the negotiation process progresses and the contract passes between parties for review and revision, one needs to be able to find and review changes. Using the tools provided by Microsoft Office Word...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tool, Negotiation, Attorney, Free Trade, Productivity, Finance
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Comparative Study of Protocols for Dynamic Service Negotiation in Next Generation Internet
- This paper presents a survey of the protocols that have been proposed for facilitating dynamic service negotiation in next generation Internet. The paper begins by illustrating the terms Service Level Agreement SLA and Service Level Specification SLS defined by the IETF and then discusses the working of the existing service...
- Tags: Protocol, Negotiation, Internet, Free Trade, Service Level Management, Networking, Finance, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers
- Integration Solutions for the Communications Industry: WiMAX / WiFi Hotspot Usage Settlements Using XML Based IPDR and RADIUS
- This paper defines the business requirements for wholesale accounting and inter-operator settlement for 802.11 WiFi and 802.16 WiMAX wireless access services. That is, public accessible Wireless LAN access and IP-based services delivered over a standard WiFi and WiMAX radio interface. An XML-based accounting and settlement record format is used within...
- Tags: Accounting, Settlement, Industry, Wi-Fi Hotspot, RADIUS, XML, WiMAX, Litigation, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-02-26
- New Support Contract Helps to Improve Performance at Global Settlement Bank
- CLS Services has a team of IT experts dedicated to the maintenance and management of CLS Bank International global multi-currency settlement system. But employees needed additional support for Microsoft systems that feed the core settlement application. In 2006, the organisation signed a Microsoft Services Premier Support contract. Using Premier Support,...
- Tags: Bank, Performance, Knowledge, Settlement, Microsoft Corp., CLS Services, Strategy, Litigation, Management, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- ADAC Uses TIBCO to Speed Up Claims Settlement Process
- For more than 100 years, the German car insurance company Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil-Club ADAC e.V. has offered its 14 million members insurance services relating to motoring. The needs of ADAC's insured customers are always the company's central concern, which is why the company decided to streamline the claims settlement process,...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Settlement, Claims Settlement, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Insurance, Litigation, Financial Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management, Software
- Case studies
- Negotiation-Based Routing Between Neighboring ISPs
- This paper explores negotiation as the basis for cooperation between competing entities, for the specific case of routing between two neighboring ISPs. Inter-domain routing is often driven by self-interest and based on a limited view of the internetwork, which hurts the stability and efficiency of routing. The paper presents a...
- Tags: University Of Washington, Internet Service Provider, Framework, Negotiation, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Free Trade, Internet, Finance
- White papers 2007-01-01
- A Multi-Agent Infrastructure and a Service Level Agreement Negotiation Protocol for Robust Scheduling in Grid Computing
- This paper proposes a new infrastructure for efficient job scheduling on the Grid using multi-agent systems and a market-like Service Level Agreement SLA negotiation protocol based on the well known Contract Net Protocol. The agent-based Grid scheduling system involves user agents, local scheduler agents, and super scheduler agents. User agents...
- Tags: Job, SLA, Agent, Grid Computing, Negotiation, Service Level Agreement Negotiation Protocol, Scheduler Agent, Service Level Management, Free Trade, Real Estate, It Operations, It service Management, Finance, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-10-25
- CA Ensures Continuity for Euroclear's ?300 Trillion Per Year Securities Settlement Business
- Euroclear is the world's largest provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity and fund transactions. As Europe's premier settlement-service provider, the company could not afford unplanned downtime or the loss of a single transaction. The challenge faced was an ambitious program of platform consolidation and...
- Tags: Security, Computer Associates International Inc., Euroclear, Recruitment & Selection, Mainframes, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Servers, Hardware, Finance
- Case studies
- Revenue Assurance for Interconnect and Carrier Access Billing
- Inter-carrier traffic represents one of the biggest sources of accounts payable, or accounts receivable for many carriers today, and the incredibly complex world of inter-carrier billing and settlement provides a hotbed of opportunities for fraud and revenue loss. Some of the biggest and most successful applications of business intelligence to...
- Tags: Billing, Microsoft Access, Settlement, SAS Institute, Carrier, Litigation, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts
- Managing Impacts of Security Protocol Changes in Service-Oriented Applications
- This paper present a software tool and a framework for security protocol change management. While it focus on trust negotiation protocols in this paper, many of the ideas are generally applicable to other types of protocols. Trust negotiation is a flexible approach to access control that is well suited to...
- Tags: Security, Negotiation, Free Trade, Finance
- White papers 2007-01-30
- How To Use the Six Laws of Persuasion during a Negotiation
- In order to be successful, you must master the persuasion process, which will enable you to deliberately create the attitude change and subsequent actions necessary for persuading others to your way of thinking. In other words, you have to be able to "sell" your ideas in order to make changes...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Negotiation, Free Trade, Finance
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Microsoft Office Live Seminar: Jeff Thull Presents, "Surviving 11th Hour Negotiations"
- The presenter of this webcast, sales and marketing strategist and author, explains how to pre-empt last minute negotiations to protect the price and profitability. The presenter explains how to pre-empt the hurdles of negotiation and secure the missing information that will give a strong advantage. This webcast will help the...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Free Trade, Finance
- Webcasts
- Grid Service Level Agreements Combining Resource Reservation and Predictive Run-Time Adaptation
- Resource reservation and performance prediction of execution run-times are key components in delivering timely application services for decision support systems. The provision of Service Level Agreements SLA and components to manage tasks such as resource negotiation, monitoring and policing are needed to help meet this requirement. This paper presents an...
- Tags: SLA, Resource Negotiation, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2005-08-18
- Content Charging and Revenue Settlement
- With the evermore increase in the delivery of mixed content across mobile networks such as Multi-Media Messaging, Web Content, Video Content as well as voice services and wireless data WiFi, mobile Service Operators have to manage this more complex array of network services. This drives a need for solution to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Settlement, Business Structures, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Finance, Marketing
- White papers 2003-12-10
- Web Services Agreement-Based Resource Negotiation in UNICORE
- Service Level Agreements provide the foundation to negotiate for a distinct Quality of Service level between the provider and the consumer of a service. Since the Grid community is adopting concepts of Service-Oriented Architectures and Web Services are capturing their space within the Grid landscape, resource management within Grids increasingly...
- Tags: Web, Negotiation, Channel Management, Free Trade, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Service Level Management, Marketing, Finance, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2005-07-11
- Blackberry situation just like Y2K
- Did you really think RIM wasn't going to pay up once the rulings went against them? Just in case you missed it, here is the scoop on the settlement:
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Y2K
- Blog posts 2006-03-05
- Layering Negotiations for Flexible Attestation
- This paper proposes a layering negotiation approach. It divides an attestation process into a global attestation phase that verifies that a Trusted Virtual Domains TVD is fundamentally secure and supporting essential trusted primitives and a local attestation phase that verifies the integrity of a specific component involved in a usage...
- Tags: Attestation, Negotiation, Free Trade, Finance
- White papers 2006-11-03
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