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The provision of Service-Based Applications (SBAs) will be driven by market-oriented mechanisms, and the market value of an application will depend not only on its functionality, but also on the value of “Quality of Service” (QoS) parameters affecting its performance. These parameters are not static properties since they may vary according to the provision strategies of providers as well as the demand of users having their own preferences on the application QoS values. In this paper we propose a market-based negotiation mechanism among service providers and a user requesting a QoS-aware SBA. It allows to take into account the variability of service QoS attribute values typical of the future market of services, as well as to dynamically set the length of the negotiation process that is usually very time-consuming especially in the context of SBAs.
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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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Di Napoli, C., Di Nocera, D., Pisa, P., Rossi, S. (2014). A Market-Based Coordinated Negotiation for QoS-Aware Service Selection. In: Ceppi, S., et al. Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets. AMEC AMEC TADA TADA 2014 2013 2014 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 187. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13218-1_3
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