Agent based automated negotiation for grid

In a dynamic service oriented environment like grid, automated negotiation between service providers and consumers becomes a crucial issue that aims to minimize manual intervening for grid environments. Currently the foundation of automatic negotiation framework is missing in grid, as well as a widely adopted grid negotiation model. In this paper, a multi-agent based automated negotiation framework is introduced into the grid environment to facilitate automated negotiation, with the advantage of its independence from concrete grid negotiation models. A refined negotiation model for grid environment is proposed as a substantial negotiation implementation based on the proposed framework and the result suggests that agent based grid automated negotiation bring remarkable flexibility.