Title :
Concurrent Multiple-Issue Negotiation for Internet-Based Services
Author :
Dang, Jiangbo ; Huhns, Michael N.
Abstract :
Negotiation is a technique for reaching a mutually beneficial agreement among autonomous entities. In an Internet-based services context, multiple entities are negotiating simultaneously. The concurrent negotiation protocol extends existing negotiation protocols, letting both service requestors and service providers manage several negotiation processes in parallel. Colored Petri nets, which have greater expressive power than finite state machines and offer support for concurrency, represent the negotiation protocol and facilitate the analysis of desirable properties
Keywords :
Internet; Petri nets; multi-agent systems; software agents; Internet-based services; autonomous entity; colored Petri nets; concurrent multiple-issue negotiation protocol; Automata; Concurrent computing; Context-aware services; Contracts; Petri nets; Power system modeling; Protocols; Supply chains; Web and internet services; Web services; Semantic Web; coherence; coordination; intelligent Web services; intelligent agents; multiagent systems;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2006.118
