Abstract

Visions of the next-generation Internet of Services are driven
by digital resources traded on a global scope. For the resulting
economic setting, automated on-line techniques for
handling services and resources themselves, for advertising
and discovering as well as for the on-the-
y negotiation of
proper terms for their use are needed. Hence, a
exible infrastructure
for the respective management of services and
associated service level agreements is mandatory.
In this paper we present a novel approach for such an infrastructure,
building on software-agent technology and an
expressive but still machine manageable protocol description
language, capable of specifying a multitude of di erent
negotiation protocols. It supports the discovery of services
with appropriate SLA negotiation styles as well as the actual
SLA negotiations based on the chosen protocol description
documents.

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