Multiagent resource allocation in

ABSTRACT III The term service network (SN) denotes a network of software services in which complex software applications are provided to customers by aggregating multiple elementary services. These networks are based on the service-oriented computing (SOC) paradigm, which defines the fundamental technical concepts for software services over electronic networks, e.g., Web services and, most re-cently, Cloud services. For the provision of software services to customers, software service providers (SPs) have to allocate their scarce computational re-sources (i.e., hardware and software) of a certain quality to customer requests. The SOC paradigm facilitates interoperability over organizational boundaries by representing business relationships on the software system level. Composite software services aggregate multiple software services into software applications. This aggregation is denoted as service composition. The loose coupling of ser-vices leads to SNs as dynamic entities with changing interdependencies betwee