Coalition formation protocol for E-commerce
Maria Indrawan, T. Kijthaweesinpoon, Balakrishnan Srinivasan, A. S. M. Sajeev · 2004
Coalitions are considered beneficial in a market place. In this paper, we present a negotiation framework in e-market place that support the formation of coalitions. Unlike some of the existing models, the proposed framework supports multi-attribute coalition negotiation, The proposed framework is also designed with flexibility in mind in order to allow the choice of proposal generation and evaluation to be decided at the implementation level.