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COMPSAC
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Effects of Introducing Survival Behaviours into Automated Negotiators
With the rise of distributed e-commerce in recent years, demand for automated negotiation has increased. In turn, this has facilitated a demand for ever more complex algorithms to...
Peter Henderson, Stephen Crouch, Robert John Walte...
SETN
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Data Brokers: Building Collections through Automated Negotiation
Collecting digital materials is time-consuming and can gain from automation. Since each source—and even each acquisition—may involve a separate negotiation of terms, a collecto...
Fillia Makedon, Song Ye, Sheng Zhang, James Ford, ...
SELMAS
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Software Framework for Automated Negotiation
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...
MATES
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
C-IPS: Specifying Decision Interdependencies in Negotiations
Negotiation is an important mechanism of coordination in multiagent systems. Contrary to early conceptualizations of negotiating agents, we believe that decisions regarding the neg...
Kay Schröter, Diemo Urbig
ECWEB
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
A Model for Multi-party Negotiations with Majority Rule
Our model of multi-party negotiations is a many parties, many issues model. The whole multi-party negotiation consists of a set of mutually influencing bilateral negotiations that...
Sheng Zhang, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Lin Ai
ECAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Tractability Results for Automatic Contracting
Abstract. Automated negotiation techniques have received considerable attention over the past decade, and much progress has been made in developing negotiation protocols and strate...
Paul E. Dunne, Michael Laurence, Michael Wooldridg...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Automated Multi-Attribute Negotiation with Efficient Use of Incomplete Preference Information
This paper presents a model for integrative, one-to-one negotiation in which the values across multiple attributes are negotiated simultaneously. We model a mechanism in which age...
Catholijn M. Jonker, Valentin Robu
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Optimal Negotiation of Multiple Issues in Incomplete Information Settings
This paper studies bilateral multi-issue negotiation between self-interested agents. The outcome of such encounters depends on two key factors: the agenda (i.e., the set of issues...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....
ARGMAS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Bargaining and Argument-Based Negotiation:
Abstract. Argumentation-based techniques are being increasingly used to construct frameworks for flexible negotiation among computational agents. Despite the advancements made to ...
Iyad Rahwan, Liz Sonenberg, Peter McBurney
KES
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Recommendation to Improve Negotiations in Agent-Based Systems
: In this paper we present research works on non-intuitive and low-efficient negotiations between agents in agent based system. We find recommendation techniques as a suitable meth...
Mateusz Lenar, Janusz Sobecki