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title: "Towards Cooperative Negotiation for Decentralized Resource Allocation in Autonomic Computing Systems"
authors:
  - "Craig Boutilier"
  - "Rajarshi Das"
  - "Jeffrey O. Kephart"
  - "William E. Walsh"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/235"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/0235.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2003
pages: "1458-1458"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# Towards Cooperative Negotiation for Decentralized Resource Allocation in Autonomic Computing Systems

Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, William E. Walsh

*Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1458-1458.

## Abstract

Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and describe a promising approach that employs preference elicitation.