Stefan König

Stefan König studied business information systems at the University of Bamberg. His diploma thesis was concerned with the introduction of the ReGreT reputation mechanism into a decentralized P2P environment. Since October 2006 he has been working as research assistant at the University of Bayreuth on the topic of electronic reputation mechanisms and negotiation in distributed systems. He was working on the FP6 research project eRep. This project's aim was the analysis and introduction of socio-economical mechanisms into grid systems.

Universitätsstr. 30
Bayreuth
95447
Germany

Email: stefan.koenig@uni-bayreuth.de
Web: http://bwl7.uni-bayreuth.de

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Sebastian Hudert

Sebastian Hudert studied business information systems at the University of Bamberg. He wrote his diploma thesis in cooperation with Dr. Heiko Ludwig from IBM, Yorktown Heights on a Negotiation framework for the WS Agreement standard. In November 2006 he started his research at the University of Bayreuth working on electronic reputation and negotiation mechanisms and SLAs. He worked in the FP6 research projects CATNETS and SORMA, both dealing with electronic negotiations for distributed grid environments.

Universitätsstr. 30
Bayreuth
95447
Germany

Email: sebastian.hudert@uni-bayreuth.de
Web: http://www.bwl7.uni-bayreuth.de/

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Torsten Eymann

Torsten Eymann is Professor for Information Systems at University of Bayreuth. Before, he was with the Institute for Computer Science and Social Research of the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany. His research topics include software multiagent systems, automated negotiation, agent-based computational economics, and ubiquitous computing. In 2001, he received a dissertation award of the Alcatel SEL foundation for the best German dissertation in information systems for his PhD thesis at the University of Freiburg. For longer research stays he has visited Hitachi's System Development Labs, Yokohama, British Telecom Labs, Martlesham Heath, UK and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Universitätsstr. 30
Bayreuth
95447
Germany

Email: torsten.eymann@uni-bayreuth.de
Web: http://www.bwl7.uni-bayreuth.de/