A flexible negotiation model for an agent-based software process modelling

  • Authors:

  • Nao Li;Mingshu Li;Qing Wang;Shuanzhu Du

  • Affiliations:

  • Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China/ Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, Ch ...;Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Key Laboratory for Computer Science, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China.;Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China.;Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Our Agent-based Software Process Modelling (ASPM) approach describes a software process as a set of cooperative agents. Negotiation is the way in which the agents construct their cooperative relations, and thus the software process. Currently, most negotiation models use a fixed negotiation protocol and fixed strategies. In order to achieve the flexibility that the negotiation of the agents in ASPM requires, we propose a negotiation model NM-PA. NM-PA mainly includes a generic negotiation protocol and some rules, which possibly change in different negotiation processes. By changing the rules, the model can support multi-protocols and multi-decision-making strategies at a lower cost.