Autonomous service level agreement negotiation for service composition provision

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 748-759

  Yan, Jun ^a   Kowalczyk, Ryszard ^b   Lin, Jian ^b   Chhetri, Mohan B ^b   Goh, Suk Keong ^b   Zhang, Jianying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent technology; Coordination; Negotiation; Service composition; Service level agreement

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INTEROPERABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WEB SERVICES;

AGENT TECHNOLOGY; PROOF-OF-CONCEPT; SERVICE COMPOSITION; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 34248141310     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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