Design and Implementation of a Service Negotiation Framework for Collaborative Disaster Management Applications

We present the design and implementation of a generic framework for cooperative multi-issue one-to-many negotiations for optimal service provisioning in collaborative disaster management information systems. The framework allows us to define negotiation protocols, negotiation subjects, properties of negotiation subject issues, deal spaces, and utility functions of participant agents. This framework was integrated into a service oriented architecture for complex collaborative processing in distributed information systems.