Service Process Configuration Based on Multi-Agent Negotiation
Ming Li · Chinese Journal of Computers · 2006
In service computing, in order to satisfy various business requirements, different services should often be composed together. As a service composition approach, service process should be configured before its execution by selecting appropriate services for each service node of the service process so that business requirements can be satisfied. In this paper, the service process configuration model, algorithm and the system based on multi-agent negotiation are proposed. The model and its supporting system framework are firstly introduced briefly and then the structure and executing mechanism of service agent are presented. Based on formalizing the satisfaction of business requirements through service process configuration into a distributed flexible constraint satisfaction problem, a multi-agent negotiation algorithm and the case study are given. At the end of the paper, the prototype system is briefly introduced. The model and the system can support complex business requirement specifying and solution searching so that the goal of service process configuration can be achieved.