Sciweavers

68 search results - page 7 / 14
» A Negotiation Protocol for Agents with Nonlinear Utility Fun...
Sort
View
IAT
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Beyond Quasi-linear Utility: Strategy/False-Name-Proof Multi-unit Auction Protocols
We develop strategy/false-name-proof multi-unit auction protocols for non-quasi-linear utilities. One almost universal assumption in auction theory literature is that each bidder ...
Yuko Sakurai, Yasumasa Saito, Atsushi Iwasaki, Mak...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 20 days ago
Argument-based negotiation in a social context
Argumentation-based negotiation (ABN) provides agents with an effective means to resolve conflicts within a multi-agent society. However, to engage in such argumentative encounter...
Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicholas R. Jennings, Iya...
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Combining Boolean Games with the Power of Ontologies for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiation in the Semantic Web
Recently, multi-attribute negotiation has been extensively studied from a game-theoretic viewpoint. Since normal and extensive form games have the drawback of requiring an explicit...
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Azzurra Ragone
SODA
2008
ACM
108views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Price based protocols for fair resource allocation: convergence time analysis and extension to Leontief utilities
We analyze several distributed, continuous time protocols for a fair allocation of bandwidths to flows in a network (or resources to agents). Our protocols converge to an allocati...
Ashish Goel, Hamid Nazerzadeh
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
On optimal outcomes of negotiations over resources
We analyse scenarios in which self-interested agents negotiate with each other in order to agree on deals to exchange resources. We consider two variants of the framework, one whe...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...