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New Internet applications and services as well as new user demands open many new issues concerning dynamic management of quality of service and price for received service, respectively. The main goals of Internet service providers are to maximize profit and maintain a negotiated quality of service. From the users’ perspective the main goal is to maximize ratio of received QoS and costs of service. However, achieving these objectives could become very complex if we know that Internet service users might during the session become highly dynamic and proactive. This connotes changes in user profile or network provider/s profile caused by high level of user mobility or variable level of user demands. This paper proposes a new agent based pricing architecture for serving the highly dynamic customers in context of dynamic user/network environment. The proposed architecture comprises main aspects and basic parameters that will enable objective and transparent assessment of the costs for the service those Internet users receive while dynamically change QoS demands and cost profile.
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Žagar, D., Rupčić, S., Rimac-Drlje, S. (2010). Pricing the Services in Dynamic Environment: Agent Pricing Model. In: Nguyen, N.T., Kowalczyk, R. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6450. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17155-0_9
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