When an agent enters in an e-Market for the first time, it has no historical information that can be used to determine the strength of business relationship with participant agen...
Negotiation between two trading agents is a two-stage process. First, the agents exchange offers whilst acquiring and exchanging information. Second, they attempt to reach a mutual...
In many AI settings an agent is comprised of both actionplanning and action-execution components. We examine the relationship between the precision of the execution component, the...
nts have recently emerged as a valuable abstraction for characterizing interactions among autonomous agents at the level of their business relationships. Traditionally, interopera...
If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when nego...
Claudio Bartolini, Chris Preist, Nicholas R. Jenni...