Software vulnerability disclosure refers to the publication of vulnerability information before a patch to address the vulnerability has been issued by the software vendor. It has generated intense interest and debate. In particular, there have been arguments made both in opposition to and in...

The merger of distributed object technology, agent systems and electronic commerce enables a new generation of useful information services. With the advent of interoperable information services, markets featuring software agents as information service/product providers can be created. Meta...

Geographically dispersed sellers in electronic reverse marketplaces such as those hosted by market-makers like Ariba are uncertain about the number of competitors they face in any given market session. We refer to this uncertainty about the number of competitors as market-structure uncertainty....