Privacy Preserving Combinatorial Reverse Auction Protocol for a Market-Oriented Grid Based on Secure Group Communication.

Negotiation is a means for intelligent agents of a market-oriented grid to communicate and compromise for reaching mutually beneficial agreements in terms of cost and quality of service. In this paper, we have presented a secure negotiation protocol for efficient management of resources in a market-oriented grid environment. The protocol enables both the resource providers and the resource consumers to find optimal deals in combinatorially and strategically complex settings through secure group communication. Preserving the privacy of the participants' data is an important issue in this protocol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]