Managing supply chains of software as a service through agent negotiations

This paper introduces a new mediation mechanism into agent negotiations. The negotiation mechanism takes a supply-chain perspective to the construction of software services, attempting to co-optimize individual negotiations between services providers and service consumers along the chain. Parties ne...

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Main Authors: Jung-Ching Chen, Gold, N.E., Mehandjiev, N., Layzell, P.J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer science
Constraint optimization
Context-aware services
Educational institutions
Informatics
Intelligent agent
Mediation
Supply chain management
Supply chains
Web services
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Summary:This paper introduces a new mediation mechanism into agent negotiations. The negotiation mechanism takes a supply-chain perspective to the construction of software services, attempting to co-optimize individual negotiations between services providers and service consumers along the chain. Parties negotiate acceptable ranges of values for either independent or multi-linked issues. This enables mediator agents to collect negotiation information throughout a supply chain and formulate it as sets of optimization objectives and constraints. Two examples are presented to demonstrate how the model operates.
ISSN:2378-1963
2378-1971
DOI:10.1109/ICECT.2005.58