Towards Agent-based service composition through negotiation in multiple auctions

Preist, Chris ; Byde, Andrew ; Bartolini, Claudio ; Piccinelli, Giacomo

HP Development Company

关键词: auctions;    service-composition;    negotiation;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2001-71R1

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

Service composition is the act of taking several component products or services, and bundling them together to meet the needs of a given customer. In the future, service composition will play an increasingly important role in e-commerce, and automation will be desirable to improve speed and efficiency of customer response. In this paper, we discuss the technical issues surrounding the automation of dynamic electronic service composition, using a fictitious company, FreightMixer, to demonstrate the process. We focus specifically on the issue of appropriate negotiation strategies for service composition, and present the specification of an algorithm to provide a robust solution to these problems in the context of multiple simultaneous auctions. We present a worked example to demonstrate the behaviour of the algorithm, and discuss related and future work.