The negotiating agents approach to runtime feature interaction resolution.
Nancy D. Griffeth, Hugo Velthuijsen · 1994
. This article describes how to use the Negotiating Agents approach on a telecommunications platform. Negotiation is used in this approach to resolve conflicts between features of one user and of different users. The theory behind the approach is discussed briefly. Methods for implementing the approach are given along with the methods for defining IN features in terms of the Negotiating Agents approach in order to resolve conflicts between these features. 1 Introduction Rapid change in the telecommunications industry increases the complexity not only of building but also of using telecommunications services. Much of the complexity arises from the feature interaction problem. When features interact, a user must understand the behavior of features in combination -- even how features of other users may affect the negbehavior of her features. Similarly, a service provider must determine how combinations of features will behave, including combinations of its own features with other provide...