Abstract
Software negotiation is gaining an increased popularity as a viable approach to establish agreements between service providers and consumers of QoS-aware Service-Based Applications (SBA) composed of services provided by different agents. In most cases, QoS preferences are expressed as end-to-end quality requirements on the whole application, and different service agents have to provide services with QoS values that, once aggregated, have to meet them. In the present work we analyze the properties of a hybrid iterative negotiation mechanism occurring among a composer agent and service provider agents on the QoS attributes of the required SBA. The proposed negotiation relies on normal probability distributions to model service provider agents, and it allows to model single-issue and multi-issue negotiation within the same negotiation framework in terms of adopted concession strategy, utility and protocol.
The research leading to these results has received funding from the EU FP7-ICT-2012-8 under the MIDAS Project (Model and Inference Driven - Automated testing of Services architectures), Grant Agreement no. 318786, and the Italian Ministry of University and Research and EU under the PON OR.C.HE.S.T.R.A. project (ORganization of Cultural HEritage for Smart Tourism and Real-time Accessibility).
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Rossi, S., Di Nocera, D., Di Napoli, C. (2014). Normal Distributions and Multi-issue Negotiation for Service Composition. In: Bajo Perez, J., et al. Trends in Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 293. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07476-4_1
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