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Negotiating SLAs-An Approach for a Generic Negotiation Framework for WS-Agreement

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The current Web Services Agreement specification draft proposes a simple request-response protocol for agreement creation only addressing bilateral offer exchanges. This paper proposes a framework augmenting this WS-Agreement to enable negotiations according to a variety of bilateral and multilateral negotiation protocols. The framework design is based on a thorough analysis of taxonomies for negotiations from the literature in order to allow for capturing a variety of different negotiation models within a single, WS-Agreement compatible, framework. In order to provide for the intended flexibility, the proposed protocol takes a two-stage approach: a meta-protocol is conducted among interested parties to agree on a common negotiation protocol first before the real negotiation is carried out in the second step due to the protocol established in the first step.

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  1. Department of Information Systems Management, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Sebastian Hudert

  2. IBM Research, T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    Heiko Ludwig

  3. Distributed and Mobile Systems Group, Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Guido Wirtz

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Hudert, S., Ludwig, H. & Wirtz, G. Negotiating SLAs-An Approach for a Generic Negotiation Framework for WS-Agreement. J Grid Computing 7, 225–246 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-009-9118-3

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