Modeling
E-negotiation Processes for a Service Oriented Architecture
Abstract: As the scope of e-business becomes broader, electronic negotiation (e-negotiation) practice requires more attention through rigorous research by the academic community. Most of the research conducted today in the field of e-negotiation focuses on software agents, negotiation strategies, and negotiation automation. One of the most fundamental problems is how to design a platform that supports these interactions. Such platform should ideally support various negotiation protocols, and offer high flexibility in designing, development and deploying such protocols. In this presentation, we will describe the work on using a web service orchestration language to model, run and control e-negotiation processes. First, we will introduce the e-negotiation problem, and the different ways to solve it using automation and support systems. We will then make the case for service oriented architectures for implementing e-negotiation systems. Finally, we will describe the contribution and future work.