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A Negotiation Description Language

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posted on 2023-06-08, 10:13 authored by Ahmed Elfatatry, Paul Layzell
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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Software: Practice and Experience

ISSN

0038-0644

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Issue

4

Volume

35

Page range

323-343

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  • Informatics Publications

Notes

Originality: The work presented in this paper was developed at an early stage in the development of service-oriented software and web services. It proposes a formal language for negotiation between software services, focusing on the contextual elements of a service and strategies for employing particular services under given conditions. The work is aimed at a higher conceptual level than current web service architectures, designed facilitate service sharing at an application level rather than an individual software component. Rigour: The work has drawn heavily on social science models of negotiation, developing notations to express both strategic intent and tactical decision making in negotiating for service. Significance: This work is ground-breaking in that it addresses negotiation at a much higher level of abstraction and thereby has to address broader issues of commerce, risk and responsibilities and trade-off. Impact: The work has developed a community of interest currently supported by an EPSRC Network Grant (SOSorNet, EP/D036852/1). The work has also underpinned an EPSRC Distributed Information Management Grant (IBHIS, GR/R51971/01) which employs some of the techniques developed in this work.

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Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-07

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