Specification of Service Level Agreements: Problems, Principles and Practices
Software Quality Control
Industrial Adoption of Agent-Based Technologies
IEEE Intelligent Systems
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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The proposed protocol has been designed to support a flexible formation of Request-based Virtual Organizations with an emphasis on reflecting the conditions of real competitive environments. It supports automated or semi-automated negotiations mainly in the creation part of a Virtual Organization life cycle and accounts for a use of Service Level Agreements. The protocol consists of three phases: (i) potential partner search, (ii) negotiation of SLAs and RBVO establishment, and(iii) RBVO execution and dissolution. The protocol is based on FIPA standards.