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... The QoS for each service may have multiple attributes, which may include the cost of using the service, response time of the service, accessibility and reliability of the service, and so on. Each agent has its own utility function about the QoS of a service, and the utility of QoS for each agent in this work are supposed to be in the range [0] [1]. We mainly focus on how an agent makes concessions and reaches agreements based on utility of QoS it received at each negotiation round. ...
... The QoS for each service may have multiple attributes, which may include the cost of using the service, response time of the service, accessibility and reliability of the service, and so on. Each agent has its own utility function about the QoS of a service, and the utility of QoS for each agent in this work are supposed to be in the range [0, 1]. We mainly focus on how an agent makes concessions and reaches agreements based on utility of QoS it received at each negotiation round. ...
Concurrently procuring multiple web services is a challenging task since service consumers and providers may have different quality of service (QoS) constraints. This work adopts concurrent service level agreement (SLA) negotiation for multiple web services procurement so that contracts for provisioning web services can be more effectively and efficiently established among consumers and service providers. The novel contributions of this work include i) devising commitment management strategies for negotiation participants to manage intermediate contract during negotiation, ii) designing an adaptive strategy profile for agent in an n-service market to determine how much concessions it should make at each negotiation round, and iii) proposing a regression-based coordination strategy for coordinating multiple concurrent SLA negotiations. Experimental results show that the coordination strategy in this work outperforms the existing works in terms of utility, negotiation speed and success rate.
... The utility value U (x) represents the level of satisfaction of x, or in other words, how good x is [4]. For two proposals with value a and value b respectively, if U (a) > U (b), then the proposal with value a is better than the proposal with value b. ...
Efficient management of service level agreements which specify mutually-agreed understandings and expectations of service provision has been a subject of research for a few years. A critical issue in this area is for service consumers and service providers to effectively achieve agreements on non-functional aspects of service provision, such as quality of service. However, this issue has not been well addressed, especially in the context of service composition provision which implies the establishment of a set of interrelated agreements on quality of service between the service consumer and multiple service providers offering various services in the composition. There is a lack of supporting frameworks and techniques to automatically and dynamically achieve agreements on quality of service constraints for individual services in a service composition, aiming at fulfilling composition’s end-to-end quality of service requirements.This paper reports the authors’ recent research in addressing this issue, using the agent technology. In this research, the service level agreements for a service composition are established through autonomous agent negotiation. To enable this, an innovative framework is proposed in which the service consumer is represented by a set of agents who negotiate quality of service constraints with the service providers for various services in the composition. This negotiation is well coordinated in order to achieve end-to-end quality of service requirements. Based on this framework, a new negotiation protocol is presented to support coordinated negotiation. A utility-function-based decision-making model is proposed based on which agents can proactively decide on the course of further actions. Moreover, this paper also contributes the novel design of the negotiation Web service on the service providers’ side for the purpose of interoperability. Finally, the prototype implementation for the purpose of proof-of-concept is discussed.
... The sophistication of the framework, as well as the range of decisions that have to be made, are influenced by the negotiation protocol, the nature of the negotiation attributes and the range of operations that can be performed on it. In this research, the decision making framework is based on the utility function which scores each point in the decision space of the negotiation object to represent the level of satisfaction [ 1] [ 12] [2]. In short, each service provider initially provides the NA a proposal specifying the service QoS it is willing to offer. ...
This paper reports innovative research aiming at supporting autonomous establishment and maintenance of service level agreements in order to guarantee end-to-end quality of service requirements for service composition provision. In this research, a set of interrelated service level agreements is established and maintained for a service composition, through autonomous agent negotiation. To enable this, an innovative framework is proposed in which agents on behalf of the service requestor and the service providers can negotiate service level agreements in a coordinated way. This framework also enables adaptive service level agreement re-negotiation in the dynamic and ever-changing service environment
... The sophistication of the framework, as well as the range of decisions that have to be made, are influenced by the negotiation protocol, the nature of the negotiation attributes, and the range of operations that can be performed on it. In this research, the decision making framework is based on the utility function which scores each point in the decision space of the negotiation object to represent the level of satisfaction [2]. In short, each service provider initially provides the NA a proposal specifying the service QoS it is willing to offer. ...
Efficient management of service level agreements which govern provision of service compositions remains a big challenge in
the Web services environment. This paper reports innovative research aiming at supporting autonomous establishment of a set
of interrelated service level agreements for service compositions. In this paper, an agent-based framework is proposed to
exploit agent interaction and negotiation capabilities for achieving agreements on service provision. Based on this framework,
this paper also discusses mechanisms for agents representing service consumers and providers to negotiate quality of service
constraints for constituent services in a coordinated way, with a focus on achieving end-to-end quality of service requirements.
In this chapter we justify the approach presented in [9, 10] by simulating the multi-agent system consisting of some number
of agents in the roles of service providers and agents in the roles of service clients. After a number of negotiations have
been performed a randomly chosen client negotiates with all providers and the selection mechanism is used to asses the expected
utility for each provider. The predicted values and negotiated values of utilities are then compared what allows for assessment
of the quality of prediction. Additionally we perform the alternative probabilistic prediction and compare both types of prediction.
We present the detailed analysis of possibilistic approach. The chapter is structured as follows. Section 2 presents the problem
overview and approach. Section 3 describes the possibilistic case-based decision model. In Sect. 4 we present the way of estimating
the value of possibilistic expected utility. Section 5 describes the simulation of the multi-agent system. Results are presented
and discussed in Sect. 6. The.nal section presents the conclusions and future work.s
