Competitive Sourcing for Internet Commerce (2007)
Steven Ketchpel, Hector Garcia-molina
1 In electronic commerce on the Internet, a customer can choose among several competitive suppliers, but because of the nature of the Internet, the reliability and trustworthiness of suppliers may...
Distributed Commerce Transactions (2007)
Steven Ketchpel, Hector Garcia-molina
In situations where self-interested agents are interacting in an environment of distrust, commercial exchanges may be blocked due to a lack of trust. We propose a fully distributed algorithm that...
Competitive Sourcing for Internet Commerce (2007)
Steven Ketchpel, Hector Garcia-molina
1 In electronic commerce on the Internet, a customer can choose among several competitive suppliers, but because of the nature of the Internet, the reliability and trustworthiness of suppliers may...
SWAPEROO: A Simple Wallet Architecture for Payments, Exchanges, Refunds, and Other Operations (1998)
Neil Daswani Dan, Dan Boneh, Hector Garcia-molina, Steven Ketchpel, Andreas Paepcke
Most existing digital wallet implementations support a single or a limited set of proprietary financial instruments and protocols for electronic commerce transactions, preventing a user from having...
SWAPEROO: A Simple Wallet Architecture for Payments, Exchanges, Refunds, and Other Operations (1998)
Neil Daswani, Dan Boneh, Hector Garcia-molina, Steven Ketchpel, Andreas Paepcke
Most existing digital wallet implementations support a single or a limited set of proprietary financial instruments and protocols for electronic commerce transactions, preventing a user from having...
Martin Röscheisen, Michelle Baldonado, Kevin Chang, Luis Gravano, Steven Ketchpel, Andreas Paepcke
The Stanford InfoBus is a prototype infrastructure developed as part of the Stanford Digital Libraries Project to extend the current Internet protocols with a suite of higherlevel information...
SWAPEROO: A Simple Wallet Architecture for Payments, Exchanges, Refunds, and Other Operations (1998)
Neil Daswani, Neil Daswani, Dan Boneh, Dan Boneh, Hector Garcia-molina, Hector Garcia-molina, ...
Most existing digital wallet implementations support a single or a limited set of proprietary financial instruments and protocols for electronic commerce transactions, preventing a user from having...
Martin Röscheisen, Michelle Baldonado, Kevin Chang, Luis Gravano, Steven Ketchpel, Andreas Paepcke
This paper surveys the five service layers provided by the Stanford InfoBus: protocols for managing items and collections (DLIOP), metadata (SMA), search (STARTS), payment (UPAI), and rights and...
Distributed Commerce Transactions with Timing Deadlines and Direct Trust (1997)
Steven Ketchpel, Hector Garcia-molina
In a multi-party transaction such as fulfilling an information request from multiple sources (also called a distributed commerce transaction), agents face risks from dealing with untrusted agents....
Martin Röscheisen, Michelle Baldonado, Kevin Chang, Luis Gravano, Steven Ketchpel, Andreas Paepcke
This paper surveys the five service layers provided by the Stanford InfoBus: protocols for managing items and collections (DLIOP), metadata (SMA), search (STARTS), payment (UPAI), and rights and...
Shopping Models: A Flexible Architecture for Information Commerce (1996)
Steven Ketchpel, Hector Garcia-molina, Andreas Paepcke
In a digital library, there are many different interaction models between customers and information providers or merchants. Subscriptions, sessions, pay-per-view, shareware, and pre-paid vouchers are...
U-PAI: A Universal Payment Application Interface (1996)
Steven Ketchpel, Hector Garcia-molina, Andreas Paepcke, Scott Hassan, Steve Cousins
The progress of electronic commerce has been stymied by the lack of widely accepted network payment mechanisms. A number of proposals have been put forward, and each one offers a slightly different...
Bottom-up design of software agents (1994)
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael Coen, Steven Ketchpel, Chris Ramming
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in scheduling a...
Bottom-up design of software agents (1994)
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael Coen, Steven Ketchpel, Chris Ramming
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in scheduling a...
An Experiment in the Design of Software Agents (1994)
Henry Kautz Bart, Bart Selman, Michael Coen, Steven Ketchpel, Chris Ramming
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in scheduling a...
Forming Coalitions in the Face of Uncertain Rewards (1994)
When agents are in an environment where they can interact with each other, groups of agents may agree to work together for the benefit of all the members of the group. Finding these coalitions of...
An Experiment in the Design of Software Agents (1994)
Henry Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael Coen, Steven Ketchpel, Chris Ramming
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in scheduling a...
Making Trust Explicit in Distributed Commerce Transactions
Steven Ketchpel, Hector Garcia-molina
In a distributed environment where nodes are independently motivated, many transactions or commercial exchanges may be stymied due to a lack of trust between the participants. The addition of trusted...