SEMANTIC SUPPORT FOR AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION WITH ALLIANCES

Stanislav Pokraev, Zlatko Zlatev, Rogier Brussee, Pascal van Eck

2004

Abstract

Companies can form alliances on the Internet to aggregate buying or selling power and create value. More concretely, together resources are shared or new possibilities are exploited that cannot be exploited individually. Most alliances are formed as a result of a negotiation process between the companies that form an alliance. This paper proposes a software framework that enables automated negotiation between alliances. Our framework allows for the semantic description of negotiation objects and their attributes, and provides a mean for the exchange of negotiation messages unambiguously interpretable by all parties involved. The proposed framework supports ad-hoc alliances by allowing parties with a common interest to negotiate on the proposal they want to make to other market participants first.

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in Harvard Style

Pokraev S., Zlatev Z., Brussee R. and van Eck P. (2004). SEMANTIC SUPPORT FOR AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION WITH ALLIANCES . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 244-249. DOI: 10.5220/0002628702440249


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Stanislav Pokraev and Zlatko Zlatev and Rogier Brussee and Pascal van Eck},
title={SEMANTIC SUPPORT FOR AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION WITH ALLIANCES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={244-249},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002628702440249},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - SEMANTIC SUPPORT FOR AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION WITH ALLIANCES
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Pokraev S.
AU - Zlatev Z.
AU - Brussee R.
AU - van Eck P.
PY - 2004
SP - 244
EP - 249
DO - 10.5220/0002628702440249