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...

This paper describes the results of simulation experiments performed on a suite of learning algorithms. We focus on games in {\em network contexts}. These are contexts in which (1) agents have very limited information about the game; users do not know their own (or any other agent's) payoff...

We study the problem of allocating m identical items among n m agents with unit demand and private value for consuming the good. We allow payments and focus on dominant-strategy implementation. In the absence of an auctioneer who can absorb payments collected from the agents, the payments must...