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Service–oriented computing (SOC) is posing new challenges in the management of compositions of services that usually belong to different administrative domains. As such they cannot be provided by adopting a centralized approach, but more sophisticated computing methodologies are necessary.
In this paper we propose to use software agent negotiation to address the problem of composing services in service–oriented environments, like the Grid. In particular, we propose to use software agents to represent service providers and service consumers, and a negotiation protocol to select the service providers that meet the requirements of service consumers on the provision of multiple interconnected services.
The proposed protocol is thought as a flexible protocol to improve the possibility of reaching an agreement by allowing both service consumers and providers to exchange more proposals to accommodate the dynamic and changing nature of service–oriented environments.
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Di Napoli, C. (2007). Software Agent Negotiation for Service Composition. In: Nguyen, N.T., Grzech, A., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications. KES-AMSTA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4496. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72830-6_47
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