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DTD 5 ARTICLE IN PRESS Decision Support Systems xx (2004) xxx– xxx /locate/dsw Multi-agent system approach to context-aware coordinated web services under general market mechanism OhByung Kwon* School of Management and International Relations, Kyunghee University Sochen-ri 1, Giheung-eup, Yongin-si, Gyunggi-do, 449-701, Korea Received 18 June 2003; received in revised form 25 July 2004; accepted 26 July 2004 Abstract Web services have been emerging as a new business opportunity over the last few years. However, these web services are still passive, often lacking rich representations and rich strategies to attract customers. This paper proposes a context-aware coordinated web service mechanism for autonomous and intelligent service provision. Multi-agent intelligent architecture is adopted to coordinate web services that are federated in a web service coordinator, which is also an agent. To provide more effective advertisement and at the same time guarantee higher profits, case-based reasoning is applied to automatically estimate user preferences. We describe a proof-of-concept prototype that was developed using JATLite. Using a simulation-based experimental study performed with an illustrative example, we found that our mechanism with multi-agents yields higher levels of user preference, higher overall profit across all federating merchants, and an increased rate of wins than current web services mechanisms, which do not include these features. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keyw