Multi-agent Coalition via Autonomous Price Negotiation in a Real-Time Web Environment

In e-marketplaces, customers specify job requests in realtime and agents form coalitions to service them. This paper proposes a protocol for self-interested agents to negotiate prices in forming successful coalitions. We propose and experiment with two negotiation schemes: one allows information sharing while the other does not.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: IAT
• Authors: Hoong Chuin Lau, Wei Sian Lim
• Keywords: Agents Form Coalitions, Customers Specify Job, IAT 2003, Intelligent Agent, Successful Coalitions