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ICWS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Policy-Based Middleware for Web Services SLA Negotiation
Negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is very important for maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) of composite Web services-based business processes. The process of negoti...
Farhana H. Zulkernine, Patrick Martin, Chris Cradd...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting Hierarchical Goals in Bilateral Automated Negotiation: Empirical Study
While argumentation-based negotiation has been accepted as a promising alternative to game-theoretic or heuristic based negotiation, no evidence has been provided to confirm this ...
Philippe Pasquier, Ramon Hollands, Frank Dignum, I...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Bargaining with Information
A negotiating agent engages in multi-issue bilateral negotiation in a dynamic information-rich environment. The agent strives to make informed decisions. The agent may assume that...
John K. Debenham
AAMAS
2004
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Multi-Dimensional, MultiStep Negotiation
We present a multi-dimensional, multi-step negotiation mechanism for task allocation among cooperative agents based on distributed search. This mechanism uses marginal utility gai...
Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Rodion M. Podoroz...
AAMAS
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A Negotiation Meta Strategy Combining Trade-off and Concession Moves
Abstract. In this paper we present a meta strategy that combines two negotiation tactics. The first one based on concessions, and the second one, a trade-off tactic. The goal of th...
Raquel Ros, Carles Sierra