Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Efficiency and Flexibility of Multi-Attribute Negotiations - The Role of Business Object Frameworks
DEXA '01 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Architecture of an Agent-Based Negotiation Mechanism
ICDCSW '02 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Computational Model for Online Agent Negotiation
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 1 - Volume 1
HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 3 - Volume 3
Multi-Dimensional, MultiStep Negotiation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
WI-IATW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
An agent architecture for multi-attribute negotiation using incomplete preference information
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A Multi-agent, Multi-object and Multi-attribute Intelligent Negotiation Model
FSKD '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery - Volume 03
A utility model for negotiation between semantic web services
TELE-INFO'09 Proceedings of the 8th Wseas international conference on Telecommunications and informatics
Towards a utility based computational model for negotiation between semantic web services
WSEAS Transactions on Computers
Trust negotiation for semantic web services
SWSWPC'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition
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Apart from some other important Semantic Web service related processes such as discovery, selection, composition etc., the process of negotiation is also generally required in the semantic web based systems. Before taking the services of a service provider, the service requester may need to negotiate with it on various issues. A utility-based, multi-attribute negotiation approach capable of providing negotiation between participating semantic web services has been presented in this paper. The approach is based upon the use of utility functions in the negotiation process and uses multiple attributes as the basis of negotiation. A communication model describing the negotiation process has been presented. The paper also presents the algorithms for various activities involved in the negotiation process. The work also proposes a novel concept of negotiation-feedback using a novel data-structure, Agreement Table. This concept can be helpful in expediting the negotiation process by decreasing the number of negotiation steps in which the agreement is reached. An evaluation of the work has been presented and a prototype system providing negotiation between semantic web services has been implemented.