Computing Pareto Optimal Agreements in Multi-issue Negotiation for Service Composition
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In a market of services, customers require Service Based Applications (SBAs) with specific QoS constraints usually expressed as end–to–end requirements. Here, we show that mechanisms used to find Pareto optimal agreements can be extended in order to compute them also in the case of negotiation for market–based service composition, where different provider agents compete to provide the same service. Moreover, we discuss how these mechanisms allow a customer agent to concurrently negotiate with all available service provider agents.
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