07.04.2005

Negotiation Agents in Adaptive Management of Service-Oriented Systems

In this talk I will address negotiation capabilities of intelligent agents and their applications in managing service-oriented systems. After a short introduction to service-oriented systems and intelligent agents, I'll present an agent-based approach to service level agreement negotiation and adaptive management of service compositions in the Web and Grid environments. Then some aspects of negotiation mechanisms between intelligent agents based on fuzzy constraint based reasoning will be presented and demonstrated with selected simple scenarios for automated negotiation in e-commerce trading, service contracting and supply network coordination. In concluding remarks, I'll outline some open problems and further research in negotiation agents for management of service-oriented systems.

Presenter's Bio:
Ryszard Kowalczyk is Full Professor of Intelligent Systems, Founding Director of the Centre for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (CIAMAS), and Coordinator of Service-Oriented Computing Research Initiative Swinburne (SOCRIS) in the Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.