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IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'03)
p. 592
A procedure for mediating between service requesters and providers
Philippe Lamarre, IRIN
Sylvie Cazalens, IRIN
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In MAS, middle agents are commonly used to find appropriate
provider agents for a given request. Most middle
agents [2] match the request with providers' advertised capabilities,
selecting a set of providers which are all able
to treat it [3, 5, 7]. We describe a mediation procedure to
complement matchmaking. Given a request, the selected
providers send monetary bids to the middle agent, expressing
their will to get it. The middle agent maintains a social
evaluation of their performing quality. Selection of the expected
n providers is obtained through a balance between
bids and estimated qualities. Two main cases are treated
in the proposed general framework: competition and requisition.
In a competition case, when more than n providers
want to treat the request, the procedure generalizes a Vickrey
auction. Requisition occurs when at least one provider
does not want to treat the request and less than n want to.
The procedure then generalizes a fair imposition mechanism:
the requisition cost is supported by all the providers
with similar capabilities. In both cases, the estimated quality
of the providers influences the selection process and the
definition of the amount of payment owed by the providers.
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Citation:
Philippe Lamarre, Sylvie Cazalens,
"A procedure for mediating between service requesters and providers,"
iat,
p. 592,
IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'03),
2003
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