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Seventh IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'05)
Managing Supply Chains of Software as a Service through Agent Negotiations
Munich, Germany
July 19-July 22
ISBN: 0-7695-2277-7
Jung-Ching Chen, University of Manchester
Nicolas E. Gold, King's College London
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester
Paul J. Layzell, University of Manchester
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-optimise 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 optimisation objectives and constraints. Two examples are presented to demonstrate how the model operates.
Citation:
Jung-Ching Chen, Nicolas E. Gold, Nikolay Mehandjiev, Paul J. Layzell, "Managing Supply Chains of Software as a Service through Agent Negotiations," cec, pp.378-381, Seventh IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'05), 2005
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