Title: Implementing the SLA negotiation in manufacturing grid

Authors: Lilan Liu, Haiyang Sun, Tao Yu, Hongxia Cai

Addresses: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mechanical Automation and Robotics, Shanghai University, 149 Yanchang Rd., Shanghai, 200072, P.R. China. ' Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mechanical Automation and Robotics, Shanghai University, 149 Yanchang Rd., Shanghai, 200072, P.R. China. ' Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mechanical Automation and Robotics, Shanghai University, 149 Yanchang Rd., Shanghai, 200072, P.R. China. ' Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mechanical Automation and Robotics, Shanghai University, 149 Yanchang Rd., Shanghai, 200072, P.R. China

Abstract: Service level agreement (SLA) negotiation plays a very important role in manufacturing grid. In order to solve its problem of practical application, firstly, we try the Nash negotiation method. Because the method depends on the negotiators| utility functions and it is impracticable to construct the different players| utility function, we abandon it. Then, we put forward the interactive multi-object negotiation method because it can solve these negotiation problems without the negotiators| utility functions. The method utilises the different negotiators| cross concessions of the different objects and seeks for the conflict bottleneck of the conflicts and then solves the negotiation problems.

Keywords: manufacturing grid; SLA negotiation; Nash negotiation; multi-object negotiation; service level agreements.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIMS.2008.022992

International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services, 2008 Vol.1 No.4, pp.366 - 379

Published online: 06 Feb 2009 *

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