Multi-Attribute Negotiation Between Semantic Web Agents

In the real-life scenario, there are very common situations involving negotiation based upon the multiple issues simultaneously. In the same way, the negotiation before selection of any web service provider agent is based upon the multiple attributes of web service. This process of making a joint decision by two or more parties resulting into a mutually acceptable agreement on some matter involving multiple attributes is called as multi-attribute negotiation. After a brief discussion over the multi-attribute negotiation, the chapter presents an overview of some of available multi-attribute negotiation approaches. An agent-based, utility-based, multi-attribute negotiation approach providing negotiation between Semantic Web Services has been described in detail. This approach also presents the formalized modeling for utility calculation and the process for generation of proposals at different steps of negotiation.

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