A plug-in architecture providing dynamic negotiation capabilities for mobile agents

Software Agents in ADAJ: Load Balancing in a Distributed Environment

“…We have, therefore, envisioned a model in which load balancing decisions in the system are made in the course of a multi-agent negotiation (see, also [33,30]). In this solution the overloaded agent sends a Call For Proposal (CFP ) message to other agents in the system, specifying objects it would like to "give away."…”

Combining a JADE-Agent-Based Grid Infrastructure with the Globus Middleware Initial Solution

“…Moving in this direction, we have designed a Job Executor module, which provides an abstract interface to execute the user job. Note that in the system under development, we plan to utilize the modular agent design introduced originally by T. Tu and collaborators in the DynamiCS project (see, [26] for more details). There, it was shown, how agents can be composed on demand from specified components.…”

Automated Negotiation Between Publishers and Consumers of Grid Notifications

“…In this context, the primary objective of each participant is to maximise their own utility, normally at the cost of the opponent's utility; each participant has their own strategy, which is kept private [24]. If the opponent's strategy is known, it may be possible to take advantage of this fact and predict their behaviour, giving an unfair advantage.…”

“…Jennings et al [13] give some details of a framework for automated negotiation, which focuses on rules of negotiation, and allowing many different types of negotiation to be carried out within the same framework. Tu et al [24] describe a way of dynamically adding negotiation abilities to an agent at run time using a pluggable architecture, and splitting the negotiation into components. We have split the negotiation in the same way.…”