4 research outputs found
A bargaining-specific architecture for supporting automated service agreement negotiation systems
The provision of services is often regulated by means of agreements that must be negotiated
beforehand. Automating such negotiations is appealing insofar as it overcomes one of
the most often cited shortcomings of human negotiation: slowness. Our analysis of the
requirements of automated negotiation systems in open environments suggests that some
of them cannot be tackled in a protocol-independent manner, which motivates the need for
a protocol-specific architecture. However, current state-of-the-art bargaining architectures
fail to address all of these requirements together. Our key contribution is a bargaining
architecture that addresses all of the requirements we have identified. The definition of
the architecture includes a logical view that identifies the key architectural elements and
their interactions, a process view that identifies how the architectural elements can be
grouped together into processes, a development view that includes a software framework
that provides a reference implementation developers can use to build their own negotiation
systems, and a scenarios view by means of which the architecture is illustrated and
validatedComisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT) SETI (TIN2009-07366)Junta de Andalucía P07-TIC-2533 (Isabel)Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIN2010-21744-C02-1Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIN2007-64119Junta de Andalucía P07-TIC-02602Junta de Andalucía P08-TIC-4100Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2008-04718-
A bargaining-specific architecture for supporting automated service agreement negotiation systems
The provision of services is often regulated by means of agreements that must be negotiated
beforehand. Automating such negotiations is appealing insofar as it overcomes one of
the most often cited shortcomings of human negotiation: slowness. Our analysis of the
requirements of automated negotiation systems in open environments suggests that some
of them cannot be tackled in a protocol-independent manner, which motivates the need for
a protocol-specific architecture. However, current state-of-the-art bargaining architectures
fail to address all of these requirements together. Our key contribution is a bargaining
architecture that addresses all of the requirements we have identified. The definition of
the architecture includes a logical view that identifies the key architectural elements and
their interactions, a process view that identifies how the architectural elements can be
grouped together into processes, a development view that includes a software framework
that provides a reference implementation developers can use to build their own negotiation
systems, and a scenarios view by means of which the architecture is illustrated and
validatedComisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT) SETI (TIN2009-07366)Junta de Andalucía P07-TIC-2533 (Isabel)Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIN2010-21744-C02-1Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIN2007-64119Junta de Andalucía P07-TIC-02602Junta de Andalucía P08-TIC-4100Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2008-04718-