Name
Title | ||
|---|---|---|
A bargaining-specific architecture for supporting automated service agreement negotiation systems |
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
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 validated. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2012 | 10.1016/j.scico.2010.09.008 | Sci. Comput. Program. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
service agreements,automated negotiation,bargaining architecture,software architecture,architectural element,own negotiation system,logical view,current state-of-the-art bargaining architecture,protocol-specific architecture,human negotiation,automated service agreement negotiation,bargaining-specific architecture,development view,automated negotiation system,process view | Architecture,Programming language,Software engineering,Computer science,Knowledge management,Reference implementation,Software architecture,Reference architecture,Enterprise architecture framework,View model,Software framework,Negotiation | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
77 | 1 | Science of Computer Programming |
Citations | PageRank | References |
12 | 0.57 | 40 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manuel Resinas | 1 | 403 | 34.53 |
| Pablo Fernandez | 2 | 116 | 13.20 |
| Rafael Corchuelo | 3 | 389 | 49.87 |