Worth-based multi-category quality-of-service negotiation in distributed object infrastructures

quality-of-service, negotiation, agents, distributed object systems Quality-of-Service (QoS) encompasses a wide range of nonfunctional characteristics, including reliability, security, and performance and is becoming increasingly important in businesscritical distributed systems. Such systems are increasingly deployed in open networks, such as the Internet, where resource allocation and load varies highly. To provide useful functionality and meet QoS requirements in such an environment, systems need to be able to dynamically (re)configure and adapt to changing QoS conditions.