Framework for Performance Evaluation of Service Negotiations in Agent Systems

Mihnea Scafeş, Costin Bădică

2010

Abstract

We propose a framework and method for evaluation of performance of multi-issue, collaborative service negotiations in multi-agent systems. The framework uses the following evaluation criteria: computation complexity, communication complexity, and scalability. Our proposal is applied to analyze a version of Contract Net protocol that we use in an agent system for disaster management. In particular we discuss how agents compute the additional effort they must deploy to meet conditions of negotiation issues. Two negotiation issues specific to disaster management problems are given as example: location and time.

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Scafeş M. and Bădică C. (2010). Framework for Performance Evaluation of Service Negotiations in Agent Systems . In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-12-6, pages 19-29. DOI: 10.5220/0003024700190029


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@conference{msvveis10,
author={Mihnea Scafeş and Costin Bădică},
title={Framework for Performance Evaluation of Service Negotiations in Agent Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={19-29},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003024700190029},
isbn={978-989-8425-12-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2010)
TI - Framework for Performance Evaluation of Service Negotiations in Agent Systems
SN - 978-989-8425-12-6
AU - Scafeş M.
AU - Bădică C.
PY - 2010
SP - 19
EP - 29
DO - 10.5220/0003024700190029