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Composing web services is gained daily attention in Service Oriented Computing. It includes the dynamic discovery, interaction and coordination of agent-based semantic web services. The authors first follow Function Ontology and Automated Mechanism Design for service agents aggregating. Then the problem is formulated but it is ineffective to solve it from the traditional global view. Because the complexity is NP-complete and it is difficult or even impossible to get some personal information. This paper provides a multi-agent negotiation idea in which each participant negotiates under the condition of its reservation payoff being satisfied. Numerical experiment is given and well evaluates the negotiation.
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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China under Grant No. 60625204, the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60736015, and the National 863 Hight-Tech Project of China under Grant No. 2006AA01Z155, the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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TANG, J., ZHENG, L. & JIN, Z. Web Services Composing by Multiagent Negotiation. J Syst Sci Complex 21, 597–608 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11424-008-9137-3
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