ADAPTIVE TRADERS FOR COMMUNICATION IN COOPERATIVE ROOMS

Reinhold Kloos (), Rolf Reinema () and Michael Schroeder ()
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Reinhold Kloos: Department of Computing, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK;
Rolf Reinema: Fraunhofer–Institute for Secure Telecooperation (FhG-SIT), Darmstadt, Germany
Michael Schroeder: Department of Computing, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2002, vol. 01, issue 03, 401-421

Abstract: In distributed systems, traders mediate between clients and service providers. This paper introduces a trading model, which supports multiagent systems (MAS) and goes beyond simple trading in three ways: (a) Service composition — The trader composes complex services of the current service offers. During the composition, it checks the availability of the service offers. (b) Use of group agents — Group agents represent a group of agents with their individual policies and other context information. The trader can use the group agent's information for a pre-selection of service offers. (c) Adaptability — The trading model uses the notion of clients' trust into services and adapts to the clients' preferences and system policies. The trading model is used in a Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) application, in which the trader finds adequate communication services for project teams with geographically distributed members.

Keywords: CSCW; trading; traders; agents; learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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