JSSPP '02 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
Concurrent bi-lateral negotiation in agent systems
DEXA '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Introduction: Service-oriented computing
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
Brain Meets Brawn: Why Grid and Agents Need Each Other
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
EGC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 European conference on Advances in Grid Computing
Establishing composite SLAs through concurrent QoS negotiation with surplus redistribution
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
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Service---oriented computing (SOC) is posing new challenges in the management of compositions of services that usually belong to different administrative domains. As such they cannot be provided by adopting a centralized approach, but more sophisticated computing methodologies are necessary.In this paper we propose to use software agent negotiation to address the problem of composing services in service---oriented environments, like the Grid. In particular, we propose to use software agents to represent service providers and service consumers, and a negotiation protocol to select the service providers that meet the requirements of service consumers on the provision of multiple interconnected services.The proposed protocol is thought as a flexibleprotocol to improve the possibility of reaching an agreement by allowing both service consumers and providers to exchange more proposals to accommodate the dynamic and changing nature of service---oriented environments.