Towards a flexible middleware negotiation facility for distributed components

Andreoli, Jean-Marc; Castellani, Stefania

doi:10.1109/dexa.2001.953144

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“…7) and the participant P1 is satisfied by this proposal. In this case, P1 can stop the negotiation in the nodes 6 and 8 -quit (6), and quit (8) -and accept the proposal of the node 5 -ready (5). Concluding all these aspects, we can say that the CONNECT verb allows to dynamically involve a new participant in a negotiation.…”

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“…The communication process is provided by Middleware layer that defines generic broadcast and synchronization mechanisms for different offers exchanged during a negotiation process. This layer is an extension of Coordination Language Facility (CLF) Middleware [7] able to support various collaborative activities taking place within the manufacturing environment [8]. This extension is called Xplore.…”

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A negotiation approach to support interoperability in a collaborative manufacturing environment

Cretan

Bratu

Coutinho

et al. 2017

2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)

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Maintaining the interoperability in a dynamic competitive manufacturing environment in which different business enterprises collaborate is difficult to achieve. Our approach highlights negotiation as the best solution to solve interoperability problems by reaching the common decision suitable for all managers of various enterprises in the most optimized amount of time. In this context, this paper proposes a multi-agent negotiation model, able to coordinate several negotiations taking place in parallel among multiple participants. It is described the negotiation strategy for evaluating and generating offers and the protocol for sending the offers to the other agents. This model is being implemented in the H2020 C2NET project for supporting manufacturing.

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Section: Description Of Negotiation Protocolmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Description Of Negotiation Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

A negotiation approach to support interoperability in a collaborative manufacturing environment

Cretan

Bratu

Coutinho

et al. 2017

2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)

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“…Other automated negotiation methods in the literature included Mobach et al, 2005 which used two-tier negotiation model in WS-Agreement to develop a one-to-many negotiation platform, Sadri et al, 2002 adopted logic-based approach and a shared language for agent communication and negotiation, Binmore & Vulkan, 1999 implemented game theory for automated negotiation, Kasbah electronic agent marketplace (Chavez et al, 1997) adopted CSP for electronic commerce application, Venugopal et al, 2008 proposed an alternate offers protocol for bilateral negotiation during resource reservation, Cheng et al, 2006 adopted artificial intelligence method and one-to-many negotiation framework for resource allocation, Rubinstein alternating protocol (Paurobally et al, 2005) supported one-to-one negotiation on a given policy and Xplore coordination platform (Andreoli & Castellani, 2001) used bi-colored negotiation graph to represent negotiation states.…”

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Conflict Resolution in Resource Federation with Intelligent Agent Negotiation

Cheng¹,

Chan²

2012

Practical Applications of Agent-Based Technology

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“…Specifications like ebXML and WS-Agreement define sub-languages for such contract templates, though they are usually attached to a very specific negotiation model. There is, however, a large body of research on contract negotiation protocols under different threat models, particularly in the area of agentbased systems (Andreoli and Castellani, 2001;Picard, 2003;Kraus, 2001). Monitoring Monitoring presents an important list of challenges.…”

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An Application of the 5-S Activity Theoretic Requirements Method

Brown¹,

Hyland²,

Piper³

2006

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies

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Whether application integration is internal to the enterprise or takes the form of external Business-to-Business (B2B) automation, the main integration challenge is similar -how to ensure that the integration solution has the quality of adaptiveness (i.e. it is understandable, maintainable, and scalable)? This question is hard enough for stand-alone application developments, let alone integration developments in which the developers may have little control over participating applications. This paper identifies main strategic (architectural), tactical (engineering), and operational (managerial) imperatives for building adaptiveness into solutions resulting from integration projects.IS-6 more aligned with (better suited for) loosely coupled integration. This is because data can be easily put aside for later use. Conversely, process integration is more aligned with tightly couple integration. Data replication, portal sharing, and messaging are the three integration solutions listed in Table 2 but missing in Table 1. Data replication is classified as synchronous integration because replication servers of databases can be programmed to perform replications continuously and replicate data as the primary data is changing. Probably slightly controversially, portal sharing is classified in Table 2 as synchronous data integration. Portals are web sites or applications that provide access to a number of sources of information and facilities (portlets). They aggregate information from multiple sources into a single display. The display of information is synchronous but no any sophisticated process-level communication between portlets is normally assumed -hence, data integration. Messaging is the primary technology for asynchronous process integration (Hohpe and Woolf, 2003). Based on the Publish/Subscribe model, messaging frameworks guarantee reliable delivery of messages in program-to-program communication while recognizing that synchronous communication with remote applications is difficult to achieve (yet asynchronous communication is frequently acceptable). ASSURING ADAPTIVE INTEGRATIONBuilding adaptiveness into enterprise and e-business systems engages all three traditional levels of management -strategic, tactical and operational.From the system's development perspective, the strategic level refers to the architectural solutions, the tactical level to the engineering decisions, and the operational level to the project controlling tasks. These three levels of management are used in the conventional top-down fashion when software is developed. We can say that system architecture defines adaptiveness, engineering activities deliver adaptiveness, and controlling tasks verify the existence of adaptiveness in an implemented system. IS-7Figure 2: PCBMER-A meta architecture.architecture PCBMER-A (where A signifies an application-centric integration). Figure 2 shows a high-level view of the PCBMER-A metaarchitecture.The second integration meta-architecture applies to process-level integrations, providing support for inter-app...

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Towards a flexible middleware negotiation facility for distributed components

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

A negotiation approach to support interoperability in a collaborative manufacturing environment

A negotiation approach to support interoperability in a collaborative manufacturing environment

Conflict Resolution in Resource Federation with Intelligent Agent Negotiation

An Application of the 5-S Activity Theoretic Requirements Method

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