The negotiating agents approach to runtime feature interaction resolution

This article describes how to use the Negotiating Agents approach on a telecommunications platform. Negotiation is used in this approach to resolve connicts between features of one user and of diierent users. The theory behind the approach is discussed brieey. Methods for implementing the approach are given along with the methods for deening IN features in terms of the Negotiating Agents approach in order to resolve connicts between these features.