Matchmaking Shell: A Shell for Supporting Service Negotiation
Simone A. Ludwig, OMER F. RANA, Daniel J Veit · 2004
ABSTRACT. Matchmaking is a key issue in electronic negotiation scenarios, and is often defined as the automatic ranking of a set of offers with reference to a set of requests. Once such an initial ranking has been achieved, individual negotiations between participants making offers and requests can be launched. Matchmaking is often an important phase in any e-negotiation system, as it enables the selection of suitable participants between which negotation should take place. We describe a generic MatchMaking Shell, which enables service independent matchmaking, and one which is able to support matching via user defined algorithms. Moreover, this shell can cater for domain specific data models (defined in XML). A definition of this shell and a prototype implementation are described. Finally, an evaluation to determine its effectiveness by measuring the performance and the matchmaking quality within a on-line bookshop is presented. RÉSUMÉ. Matchmaking est une question clé dans les scénarios électroniques de négociation et est souvent défini comme le ranking automatique d’un ensemble d’offres concernant un ensemble de demandes. Une fois réalisé ce ranking, négociations individuelles entre les participants faisant des offres et des demandes peuvent être lancées. Matchmaking est souvent une