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<article-title>WS-Agreement Based Resource Negotiation in AgentScape</article-title>
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<author><a href="mailto:michel@cs.vu.nl"><name>M.A. Oey</name></a></author>
<aff>Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:rjtimmer@cs.vu.nl"><name>R.J. Timmer</name></a></author>
<aff>Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:mobach@cs.vu.nl"><name>D.G.A. Mobach</name></a></author>
<aff>Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:bjo@cs.vu.nl"><name>B.J. Overeinder</name></a></author>
<aff>Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:frances@cs.vu.nl"><name>F.M.T. Brazier</name></a></author>
<aff>Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands</aff>


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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>Mobile agents require access to computing resources on heterogeneous
systems across the Internet. This demo illustrates how
agents can negotiate terms and conditions of resource access with
one or more mediators representing virtual organizations of autonomous
hosts, before migrating to a new location. Time-limited
resource contracts are the result: contracts between agents and mediators,
and contracts between mediators and hosts. The negotiation
protocol and language are based on the WS-Agreement Specification,
and have been implemented and tested within the Agent-
Scape framework. The demonstration shows in detail how this negotiation
framework has been implemented for resource access on
remote, distributed systems.</p>
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