E-Alliance: A Negotiation Infrastructure for Virtual Alliances

Stefania Castellani (), Jean Marc Andreoli (), Mihnea Bratu (), Olivier Boissier (), Ilham Alloui () and Karim Megzari ()
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Stefania Castellani: Xerox Research Centre Europe
Jean Marc Andreoli: Xerox Research Centre Europe
Mihnea Bratu: ENS Mines de Saint-Etienne
Olivier Boissier: ENS Mines de Saint-Etienne
Ilham Alloui: LISTIC, ESIA
Karim Megzari: ENS Mines de Saint-Etienne

Group Decision and Negotiation, 2003, vol. 12, issue 2, No 4, 127-141

Abstract: Abstract In this paper we provide an overview of E-Alliance, a software infrastructure we are developing to support negotiation activities in concurrent inter-organisational alliances. Our baseline is to offer a collaboration framework which fully preserves the autonomy of organisations grouped in an alliance, while enabling concurrency of their activities, flexibility of their negotiations and dynamic evolution of their environment. We propose to support negotiation between the partners within such alliances by combining different technologies, such as software engineering techniques, middleware-level coordination facilities and multiagent systems support. We present our approach in the context of a sample scenario of an alliance where partners are printshops capable of (out/in) sourcing print jobs among them to better accomplish their customers' requests.

Keywords: interaction protocol; middleware; multi-agent systems; negotiation; virtual enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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