Managing Supply Chains of Software as a Service through Agent Negotiations

This paper introduces a new mediation mechanism into agent negotiations. The negotiation mechanism takes a supply-chain perspective to the construction of software services, attempting to co-optimise individual negotiations between services providers and service consumers along the chain. Parties negotiate acceptable ranges of values for either independent or multi-linked issues. This enables mediator agents to collect negotiation information throughout a supply chain and formulate it as sets of optimisation objectives and constraints. Two examples are presented to demonstrate how the model operates.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: WECWIS
• Authors: Jung-Ching Chen, Nicolas E. Gold, Nikolay Mehandjiev, Paul J. Layzell
• Keywords: Agent Negotiations, Business, Individual Negotiations, Negotiation Mechanism, WECWIS 2005