Agent mediated electronic commerce research at Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Cremona: an architecture and library for creation and monitoring of WS-agreents
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Service oriented computing
Towards Autonomous and Automatic Evaluation and Negotiation in Agent-Mediated Internet Marketplaces
Electronic Commerce Research
Ontology Management for Large-Scale E-Commerce Applications
DEEC '05 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce
A Semantic Web Services Architecture
IEEE Internet Computing
Template-Based automated service provisioning – supporting the agreement-driven service life-cycle
ICSOC'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
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Automating the creation and management of SLAs in electronic commerce scenarios brings many advantages, such as increasing the speed in the contracting process or allowing providers to deploy an automated provision of services based on those SLAs. We focus on the service trading process, which is the process of locating, selecting, negotiating, and creating SLAs. This process can be applied to a variety of scenarios and, hence, their requirements are also very different. Despite some service trading architectures have been proposed, currently there is no analysis about which one fits better in each scenario. In this paper, we define a set of properties for abstract service trading architectures based on an analysis of several practical scenarios. Then, we use it to analyse and compare the most relevant abstract architectures for service trading. In so doing, the main contribution of this article is a first approach to settle the basis for a qualitative selection of the best architecture for similar trading scenarios.